“I’m all right, Mama. I’m good,” Michelle Dewitt remembered her son saying shortly after police charged him in the Aug. 22 killing of a woman on the Charlotte light rail train. Brown told her that the police said they had the wrong man, and that they were going to let him go, said Dewitt, of Charlotte.

Decarlos Brown has a long history of being in trouble with the law; his criminal record shows three misdemeanors between 2007 and 2009.

US President Donald Trump demanded the death penalty for a man charged with murdering a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train - a crime the US right has turned into a political rallying point.

The women of daytime talk show “The View” added their voices to the discussion around crime and mental health in the wake of the Charlotte light rail stabbing. Longtime moderator Whoopi Goldberg addressed criticisms from the Trump administration, which has placed blame on Democrats following the grisly attack.

Stokes, a magistrate judge in North Carolina, presided over a case involving Decarlos Brown Jr. months before he was accused of murdering a Ukrainian refugee.

The sicko accused of brutally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on a train in North Carolina last month has been hit with a federal criminal charge, the Justice Department and FBI

In April 2014, Brown pleaded guilty to two 2013 charges of felony larceny and breaking and entering. Online court records are barren of details on these cases. A judge (online court records don’t specify who) suspended his sentence of five to 15 months in prison. Instead, the judge ordered he serve two years probation.

President Donald Trump demanded the death penalty for DeCarlos Brown Jr., charged with fatally stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line. The attack, captured on surveillance video,

The calls for cash sparked immediate fury after horrific surveillance video showed a killer pulling out a pocket knife and savagely attacking the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on Aug. 22.