Iryna Zarutska’s Killer Faces Death Penalty

The career criminal accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail system was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges that could land him the death penalty.

Accused killer Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was charged with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system resulting in death, according to the indictment handed up in the Western District of North Carolina.

The federal charges make Brown – who, according to the indictment, acted with “reckless disregard for human life” – eligible for the death penalty.

The charges make him eligible for the death penalty.

Brown was allegedly caught in a harrowing video surveillance stabbing Zarutska, 23, to death on the evening of Aug. 22 on the Lynx Blue Line light rail in Charlotte.

Video captured Zarutska busying herself with her phone as Brown, wearing a red sweatshirt, unfolded a pocketknife before allegedly stabbing her.

Cops found Zarutska in a pool of blood in the back of the train car with a stab wound to her neck and a cut to her knee, according to Brown’s criminal complaint.

Brown was arrested at the scene and authorities recovered a pocketknife covered in the beloved Ukrainian refugee’s blood.

He also faces a state charge of first-degree murder.