A newly released transit video, showing the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte, N.C., light rail train, has prompted the FBI and DOT to investigate.
Sept. 9 A recently released transit video, showing last month’s deadly stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on board a Charlotte, N.C., light rail train, has prompted the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate her murder and consider withholding federal funds until public safety is improved.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Monday night his department „will be investigating Charlotte over its failure to protect Iryna Zarutska.“
„If mayors can’t keep their trains and buses safe, they don’t deserve the taxpayers‘ money“, Duffy wrote in a post on X. „Murders on public transit like that of Iryna Zarutska should never be allowed to happen again.“
Zarutska, 23, had moved to Charlotte from Ukraine and was murdered on Aug. 22, while riding the city’s LYNX Blue Line. Over the weekend, the Charlotte Area Transit System released a video of her killing.
