DeCarlos Brown Jr. Found Incompetent to Proceed in Charlotte Light Rail Killing

DeCarlos Brown Jr. has been found “incapable to proceed” on the state murder charge brought against him in the killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, according to court filings.

Brown, a 35-year-old homeless man who previously told police he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, faces both state and federal murder charges in the August light rail stabbing of 23-year-old Zarutska. The results of his capacity evaluation were revealed in a motion his state public defender filed in Mecklenburg Superior Court on Tuesday.

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He will remain in federal custody while his federal murder charge is pending, Roberts said in the motion. A U.S. magistrate judge previously ordered a second federal psychiatric exam for Brown’s federal case.

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