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What's up everybody? Welcome back to Black Girl Gone After Thoughts. I, of course,

I'm your host, Amara, and I am here with my husband and my co-host Jason.

So we are back this week with a afterthoughts about the Nea Wilson case that we just covered last week and this story is nearly eight years old.

And so it's not a recent case, but it, you know, when I started doing the research for the episode and I realized that it had been that long, it doesn't feel like it had been that long because I vividly remember when this case happened.

So the fact that eight years have gone by since this tragedy is kind of crazy.

But one of the reasons why I wanted to tell this story now is because it just seemed very timely.

Now, recently, about last year, I believe, August 2025, there was an incident where a Ukrainian immigrant, a woman named Irina Zarutkaka was stabbed to death on a train in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, right?

Okay.

And the perpetrator of that crime was a black man named DeCarloes-Dwan Brown Jr.

And so the incident happens.

It's captured on camera.

It says it's horrific.

She,

she gets on the,

um,

she gets on the train and she sits down and without warning or provocation,

he pulls out a knife and he stabs her three times in,

and her neck and kills her. Um, he pulls out a knife and he stabs her three times in her neck and kills her.

So this is a train, because I don't know this story, of course, but, so is this a train that's like,

like a city train?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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