Indictment says suspect in deadly light rail attack could face the death penalty

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A federal grand jury indicted a man on a charge he fatally stabbed a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte, North Carolina, commuter train.

The indictment, first reported by WCCB on October 23rd, on a charge of causing death on a mass transportation system keeps a possible death sentence on the table for Decarlos Brown Jr. if prosecutors decide to seek it.

Brown stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in an apparently random attack captured on video. Brown is also charged with the killing in state court, but federal prosecutors stepped in after growing questions about why Brown was on the street despite 14 prior criminal arrests.

President Trump’s administration has used the case to show how it thinks local leaders, judges and policies in Democr