And that is that in 955 on August 22nd, Charlotte Meckinburg Police Department responded to a call that there had been a stabbing on a light rail train.

They located the victim who had been suffered stab wounds in her neck

on her hand. They found a pocket knife on the scene and they apprehended defendant at the rail stop.

Now much more recently, the surveillance video was obtained from the train and that's really what

gave us the basis for federal charges here and the surveillance video shows

Arina Zarutzka getting on the train by herself in her work uniform sitting

down by herself in a row that just happened to be in front of the Carlos Brown

Jr. Approximately four minutes later Mr. Brown pulled out a pocket knife. You see

him on video open that pocket knife and he stabbed her three times in the neck.

He then walked off the train with blood dripping from the knife.

This is obviously a horrible, horrible situation.

But this is why federal statutes exist.

They exist to take care of situations like this because no one should sit in fear when

they sit on the light rail.

If you sit and fear on the light rail, you sit in fear when you walk around the streets

of our center city like I do every day.

You sit in fear when you go to our parks like I do with I do every day. You sit and fear when you go to our

parks like I do with my daughter every weekend. You sit and fear at our sporting events, our

entertainment venues, at concerts, at our museums. These are all the things that we've worked as a

city so hard to build. We built this city. Companies have come here in droves. More than 150 people

move here every day. We built a city that people want to live in, but we can lose that all if we allow violent crime like this to go on in our streets. And I'm here to tell you, the federal government is going to save our city from that.

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

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