The tragic story of the senseless murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, continues to reverberate across the country as Democrats and Republicans point fingers at each other for the incredible failure of our justice system. There is simply no way in a rational universe that the cold-blooded murderer, Decarlos Brown Jr., should ever have been walking the streets.
Now, in a conversation recorded from jail by his sister, we hear him speak for the first time and try to explain the reasons behind his psychotic actions. He is clearly deeply mentally disturbed:
🚨BREAKING: Decarlos Brown Jr. speaks for the first time since the murder of Iryna Zarutska.
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) September 10, 2025
He claims "that's not me" & the government made him do it.
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Unfortunately, his answers will not bring peace to anyone or assuage the pain of Zarutska’s family, because they are sadly the ramblings of someone who is no longer in touch with reality. He claimed he was being controlled by some sort of outside entity:
Now, his sister Tracey Brown, 33, has shared shocking audio with the Daily Mail of a phone call she had with Brown six days after he was arrested, where he explained what was going through his mind when he launched the bloody attack.
The 34-year-old, who is schizophrenic, can be heard telling his sister he believed the government had planted foreign 'materials' into his brain and they had been in control of his actions when he pulled the knife on Iryna.
In the audio recording from the afternoon of August 28, Brown can be heard telling Tracey: 'I hurt my hand, stabbing her. I don't even know the lady.
'I never said not one word to the lady at all. That's scary, ain't it. Why would somebody stab somebody for no reason?'
He added he wanted police to 'investigate' the 'materials' which were 'controlling' him, while referring to the attacker in third person.
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The madman’s sister asked him the question everyone is wondering: why her?
'Out of all people, why her?' Tracey asked her brother. 'She's from the Ukraine, she's from Russia, and they had a war going on against the United States, so I'm just trying to understand, of all people, why her?'
'They just lashed out on her, that's what happened,' Decarlos replied. 'Whoever was working the materials they lashed out on her. That's all there is to it.
'Now they really gotta investigate what my body was exposed to... Now they gotta do an investigation as to who was the motive behind what happened.'
Decarlos Brown was arrested FOURTEEN times and released every single time.
— Holy Smoke (@TradicalCath) September 7, 2025
Every official who released him should be arrested and charged as co-conspirators in this homicide. pic.twitter.com/79VCAJchZ7
Clearly, the system here failed Iryna, it failed North Carolina, and it failed the country. Although politicizing tragedy is normally to be deplored, in this case, serious questions must be asked, and Republicans are right to be asking them: just what the hell has happened to our justice system?
This tragedy will be felt for a long, long time, and our hearts go out to Iryna Zarutska and her grieving family.
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