{"id":2485079,"date":"2025-09-10T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/decarlos-brown-jr-speaks-out-from-jail-refuses-to-accept-responsibility-for-murder-of-iryna-zarutska\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T23:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T03:12:45","slug":"decarlos-brown-jr-speaks-out-from-jail-refuses-to-accept-responsibility-for-murder-of-iryna-zarutska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/decarlos-brown-jr-speaks-out-from-jail-refuses-to-accept-responsibility-for-murder-of-iryna-zarutska\/","title":{"rendered":"Decarlos Brown Jr. Speaks Out from Jail, Refuses to Accept Responsibility for Murder of Iryna Zarutska"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdecarlos-brown-jr-speaks-out-from-jail-refuses-to-accept-responsibility-for-murder-of-iryna-zarutska%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2485079&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports on Decarlos Brown Jr.,who is accused of the murder of Iryna Zarutska,a 23-year-old Ukrainian war refugee,in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/presumed-nyc-homeless-man-allegedly-stabs-breakdancer-multiple-times-on-subway\/\" title=\"Presumed NYC Homeless Man Allegedly Stabs Breakdancer Multiple Times on Subway\">unprovoked stabbing<\/a> on a Charlotte,North Carolina light-rail transit line.Surveillance footage shows brown stabbing Zarutska while she was unaware. Brown, however, denies responsibility in a jail conversation, claiming that &#8220;materials used in my body stabbed the lady&#8221; and suggesting his body was influenced or controlled by external forces. His sister attributes the killing to Brown&#8217;s mental illness, stating he had been struggling with severe psychosis as his release from prison in 2022 after serving time for armed robbery. She criticizes the state for failing to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >provide adequate mental health care<\/a>, believing he was a high risk to society and should not have been released. The murder, initially receiving little media attention, has since become a national issue, with the Trump management taking interest and former President Trump calling for the death penalty in the case.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The man accused of murder in the caught-on-video killing of a woman that&rsquo;s shocked the country claims it wasn&rsquo;t his fault.<\/p>\n<p>In a recording of an Aug. 28 conversation at the jail, reported by the U.K.&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15081943\/ukrainian-refugee-stabbing-iryna-zarutska-north-carolina.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Decarlos Brown Jr. told his sister that &ldquo;materials used in my body stabbed the lady.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know that&rsquo;s not me,&rdquo; Brown said.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Brown is facing state and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-trump-makes-move-decarlos-brown-nobody-can-save-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal charges<\/a> in the brutal stabbing death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/play-play-video-leads-murder-iryna-zarutska-reporters-last-sentence-jaw-dropping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iryna Zarutska<\/a>, a 23-year-old war refugee from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The two were aboard a light-rail public transit line in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the night of Aug. 22 when the utterly unprovoked attack occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Brown can clearly be seen on surveillance footage drawing a knife from his pocket, standing up behind Zarutska, who was scrolling through her phone &mdash; apparently oblivious to his presence, then stabbing her.<\/p>\n<p>But to hear Brown tell it, he had no role in the killing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The material used in my body stabbed the lady,&rdquo; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>His sister, Tracey Brown, asked, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just trying to understand, out of all people, why her?&rdquo; Brown had no intelligible answer.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hey, it, I don&rsquo;t have nothing,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They just lashed out on them, that&rsquo;s what happened,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They lashed out on her &hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Whoever was working the materials, they lashed out on her.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now they really gotta investigate what my body was exposed to &hellip; Now they gotta do an investigation as to who was the motive behind what happened,&rdquo; he said, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>After first being greeted with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/karoline-leavitt-shames-reporters-faces-iryna-zarutska-coverage-highlights-clear-double-standard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-cnn-ignore-sex-assault-allegations-against-dem-senate-candidate\/\" title=\"MSNBC, CNN Ignore Sex Assault Allegations Against Dem Senate Candidate\">mainstream media silence<\/a><\/a>, the Zarutska killing has become a national flashpoint.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/multiple-trump-admin-agencies-investigating-iryna-zarutska-murder-serious-consequences-charlotte-floated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken a strong interest<\/a> in the crime, and Trump himself on Wednesday called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-calls-quick-death-penalty-murderer-iryna-zarutska-can-no-option\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for the death penalty<\/a> in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Tracey Brown, meanwhile, told the Daily Mail that her brother&rsquo;s mental illness is to blame for the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Decarlos Brown was released from prison in 2022 after a five<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">-year prison sentence<\/a> for armed robbery, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/10\/us-news\/decarlos-brown-jr-stabbed-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutska-because-he-believed-she-was-reading-his-mind-sister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tracey Brown told the Daily Mail in an interview that her brother had been mentally ill since at least his prison release &mdash; and that he had tried to have himself admitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-football-coaches-respond-to-the-passing-of-bobby-bowden-by-highlighting-his-character\/\" title=\"Top Football Coaches Respond To The Passing Of Bobby Bowden By Highlighting His Character\">mental care<\/a> several times.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I strongly feel like he should not have been on the streets at all,&rdquo; she said, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to be honest. I&rsquo;m not blaming anyone for his actions, except for the state. I&rsquo;m blaming the state for letting him down as far as seeking help.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When you have mentally ill people seeking help, and you&rsquo;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.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Her brother, she said, is one of those people.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He was a high risk. He was not in his right mind. He was not safe for society,&rdquo; she told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know what he has been dealing with the last three years. 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