“Letting him out is just unforgivable at this point,” Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told Newsmax on Tuesday, referring to the release of a suspect now charged with murder.
On Aug. 22 in Charlotte’s South End, 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska was fatally stabbed shortly after boarding a light rail train. Police identified the suspect as 34-year-old Decarlos Brown Jr., who has since been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Brown had previously been released by Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes before the attack.
“And yet the reality is, if we don’t have a way of keeping people incarcerated and a judge should have known in January of his violent criminal background, and for them to just simply let him back out on the streets is just unforgivable at this point,” Harris said during an appearance on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.”
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