Decarlos Brown, 34, was seen in surveillance footage lunging at Iryna Zarutska, 23, from behind as she sat scrolling on her phone on a train through Charlotte on August 22
The man accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has spoken out for the first time from prison in a chilling phone call recorded by his sister.
Decarlos Brown, 34, was captured on CCTV footage attacking Zarutska, 23, from behind as she sat engrossed in her mobile on a train through Charlotte on August 22, according to the Daily Mail.
The horrifying video has ignited widespread sorrow, fury, and concerns about public safety in the Democrat-led city as the country grapples with the atrocity. This news comes after calls for the death penalty for the man charged with the brutal murder of the Ukrainian refugee on the train.
Sister reveals shocking audio of killer’s twisted confession
Now, his sister Tracey Brown, 33, has shared disturbing audio with the Daily Mail of a phone conversation she had with Brown six days post his arrest, where he detailed what was going through his mind when he initiated the bloody assault, reports the Express.
The 34 year old, who suffers from schizophrenia, can be heard telling his sister that he believed the government had implanted foreign “materials” into his brain and they were controlling his actions when he attacked Iryna with a knife.
Chilling admission: ‘I hurt my hand stabbing her’
In the audio recording from the afternoon of August 28, Brown can be heard telling Tracey: “I hurt my hand, stabbing her. I don’t even know the lady.
“I never said not one word to the lady at all. That’s scary, ain’t it. Why would somebody stab somebody for no reason?”.
He further expressed his desire for the police to “investigate” the “materials” that were “controlling” him, whilst referring to the attacker in the third person.
Sister’s anger at system that let down her brother
She revealed that Brown had attempted to get hospitalised multiple times over recent years as his mental health spiralled out of control, but doctors kept discharging him after just 24 hours.
“I strongly feel like he should not have been on the streets at all,” Tracey stated.
“I’m going to be honest. I’m not blaming anyone for his actions, except for the state. I’m blaming the state for letting him down as far as seeking help.
“When you have mentally ill people seeking help, and you’re running tests on them, and you clearly see that you are dealing with a psychosis on an acute level, you do not let them go back into society.
“He was a high risk. He was not in his right mind. He was not safe for society.
“An innocent woman is dead” – sister’s heart-wrenching confession.
“We know what he has been dealing with the last three years,” she added. “And now an innocent woman is dead.
“He was asking and crying for help, and no-one heard him or took him seriously. He reached a level of his mental illness that caused him to commit a heinous crime.”
Desperate 999 calls ignored by authorities
Brown also rang 999 several times, and directly told the police that he believed his brain was being controlled by a microchip.
The most recent occurrence of this was on 19 January, when he was nicked for “misuse of the 911 system” after dialling the emergency number whilst police were carrying out a welfare check on him.
During the incident, Brown informed the police that he believed “man made” materials were inside his body, controlling his actions.
“Brown wanted officers to investigate this ‘man-made’ material that was inside of his body,” the arrest affidavit states.
“Officers advised Brown that the issue was medical issue and that there was nothing further they could do.”
This response sent Brown into a fury, leading him to call 911. Officers arrested him and charged him with a misdemeanour.
“He was seeking help,” Tracey said. “He called 911 multiple times. Instead of talking to him they thought charging him was going to help.”
Another chance to take Brown off the streets presented itself when a magistrate was informed about the case at a hearing on 21 January, but she granted him cashless bail on a “written promise” that he would return to court.
Tracey stated that the judge ordered a psychiatric test for him through the courts, but “they pushed it back for a year and a half”.
She told the Daily Mail that her brother first went to prison for armed robbery in 2016, and when he was released six years later he was a “completely different person”.
“When he came home, he was not the same brother that I remember,” she expressed.
“He used to be quiet and self-reserved. But he wasn’t that brother any more. He was still quiet, but he seemed like he was out of sorts.
“He seemed like he was not in our reality any more. He seemed distant every time I spoke with him. I think being incarcerated caused some kind of trauma.
“I could tell that he was still trying to talk like himself, but there was something there. It started coming out more and more.”
His mind was overtaken by paranoid delusions
“Every once in a while, he would bring up the microchip, and he would say ‘did you see that’, and just stop talking and stare out in space somewhere,” she added.
“He thought that I was in on it or that my mother was in on it.”
Violence broke out at family home before deadly attack.
Brown had also been nicked for violent crimes before – including assaulting Tracey in her home shortly after his release from prison in 2022.
“It started with us arguing about cleaning the house,” Tracey told the Daily Mail.
“I had never had bugs, and I asked him to keep his room a little more clean. He would leave food in his room.
“We went back and forth about that and it just kind of went from there. He flipped out. He bit my hand and I kicked him out.
“He knocked the hinges off the door trying to get back in.”
Sister drops charges out of love and regret
Tracey revealed she reported the incident to police, but subsequently withdrew the charges as she couldn’t bring herself to pursue legal action against her own brother.
“I dropped the charges because I understand him on a deeper level, because I was trying to put myself in his shoes,” she said.
“I understood what he was going through and I knew that he just needed to talk about it.
“I blame myself because I feel like I gave up on him as for kicking him out of the house,” she added.
“I feel like I did everything I could, but if I had known that it was deeper that what I thought… I beat myself up about it. I wish I could have seen how serious this was.”
Childhood trauma in foster care system
Tracey revealed she also holds their mother responsible. She explained that both she and Brown were taken from their parents’ care and spent the majority of their childhood in foster homes.
Throughout this period, she was split up from Brown but they maintained an emotional bond.
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