CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The man accused of killing a Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train in North Carolina’s largest city appeared in court on a federal count Thursday, hours before the government announced a similar charge against a different man for an unrelated, non-fatal stabbing on the same light rail system.

Decarlos Brown Jr. and his attorneys made an initial court appearance in a Charlotte courtroom on the count of causing death on a mass transportation system. Shackled from his hands and ankles and wearing a jumpsuit, Brown kept his head up looking at U.S. District Judge Susan Rodriguez as she read the charge against him.

Authorities accuse Brown, 35, of stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail car in August, in an apparently random attack captured on video.

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