Danielle Alvarez, senior adviser with the Republican National Committee, told Newsmax on Monday that “soft on crime policies” are to blame for the murder of a Ukrainian immigrant on a train in North Carolina last month.
Authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina, have charged Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, with first-degree murder for allegedly fatally stabbing Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who fled to America after Russia invaded her country, while on the city’s light rail system.
According to police, Brown was previously diagnosed with schizophrenia, is currently homeless, and has a criminal record with 14 arrests on charges of assault, felony larceny, and making threats, and was imprisoned on charges of armed robbery from 2014 to 2020.
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