“He Was Arrested 14 Times!” - Iryna Zarutska’s Killer WON’T Stand Trial
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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The panel examines a North Carolina murder case where the suspect was deemed incompetent to stand trial, sparking debate over mental illness, repeat offenders, and systemic failures. The conversation explores institutionalization, public safety, and the limits of criminal accountability.
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| 0:00.0 | The man accused of killing a young woman in North Carolina light train has been deemed incompetent to stand trial in a state case following a mental evaluation according to newly released court. Can you imagine this? It's incompetent to do that. |
| 0:13.7 | De Carlos Brown Jr. 34 is charged in the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian woman, Irina Zarutska, 23, while aboard Light Rail Links, Blue Line |
| 0:23.9 | in Charlotte, August 22, 2025, this less than a year ago. |
| 0:27.0 | However, a report stemming from Brown's time as a patient at Central Regional Hospital |
| 0:31.4 | determined he was incapable to proceed in the upcoming state criminal trial, |
| 0:35.4 | according to court documents obtained by Fox News. |
| 0:37.9 | This is separate from a federal case that he is also facing stemming from alleged attack. |
| 0:42.4 | Browne-homeless man diagnosed with schizo is currently in federal custody on separate charges relating to the alleged murder. |
| 0:50.8 | Vinnie, I'm coming to your first and Aviv. I'm coming to you next. |
| 0:52.8 | Well, and they left out the part where he walked away and said, I got a white girl. I got a white girl. Crazy people aren't, that's a mission that he was on to do. And mind you, Pat, he was arrested 14 times since 2007, and the crimes included assault, armed robbery, breaking and entering, firearm possession, other felony offenses. |
| 1:14.1 | They said he got schizophrenia diagnosis. |
| 1:16.7 | His own mother warned the courts, Tom, that he should not be on the streets. |
| 1:21.9 | And just before killing her, he was released again on a cashless bail. |
| 1:25.8 | And then he ran on the train, stabbed her in the neck. |
| 1:28.9 | That's complete and total failure. |
| 1:30.8 | If you guys remember, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 people, dismembered their bodies, ate some of them, ate some of them, found competent for trial. |
| 1:40.5 | I think this is complete BS. |
| 1:42.6 | So 14 times offender, Pat, this is the system. This is the |
| 1:47.6 | system failing and it's absolute BS. And it happens all this is this is just one time that it's |
| 1:53.4 | happening and they keep blaming this insanity nonsense. You guys kept letting him get out and this |
| 1:58.7 | happens way too much, Pat. It happens way too much. |
| 2:01.4 | It's not slipping through the cracks. |
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