Overview
- Court filings show the Rule 24 proceeding to decide whether North Carolina will seek the death penalty is now set for April 2026 at the request of Decarlos Brown Jr. and his attorney.
- Brown faces state first-degree murder charges and a federal count of causing death on a mass-transportation system, a charge that can carry capital punishment.
- New surveillance footage published this weekend shows the alleged attacker walking on the platform after the stabbing before officers tackled and arrested him.
- Republican lawmakers criticized the delay, the attorney general directed a federal prosecution seeking the maximum penalty, and President Donald Trump publicly called for the death penalty.
- Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was killed on the Lynx Blue Line on Aug. 22, and her family has asked media outlets to stop circulating the graphic video of the attack.