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The deadly stabbing aboard a light rail car in North Carolina was reimagined as a bizarre life-saving bystander intervention , in an eerie new video dropped Tuesday by rapper DaBaby.

The music video of "Save Me," by the artist whose real name is Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, had more than 400,000 views in YouTube by Wednesday afternoon and has garnered some backlash across social media.

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The song reenacts the brutal slaying of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska, 23, while she rode a Charlotte Area Transit System train last month.

Chilling surveillance video showed Zarutska sitting by herself with a man seated behind her. Then with seemingly no provocation, the man c

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