A butterfly species has been named Iryna’s Azure in memory of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who was killed on board a train in North Carolina in August.

Zarutska, 23, fled Ukraine in 2022 after Russia’s invasion, and had been working at a pizzeria when she was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 22 . Her killing renewed attention on repeat offenders and lenient pretrial bail , as the suspect in this attack, Decarlos Brown Jr., faced more than a dozen charges dating back to 2014.

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