The uncut video footage related to Iryna Zarutska shows the tragic and brutal stabbing of the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte, North Carolina light rail train on August 22, 2025.
The surveillance video, released by the Charlotte Area Transit System, captures her boarding the train, sitting across from the attacker, and the moments directly before and after the stabbing. The attacker, Decarlos Brown Jr.,
pulled out a knife and stabbed her multiple times, leading to her death on the train. The footage records Brown moving through the train car after the stabbing and exiting at the next stop, where he was arrested.
The video has been widely shared, though edits have been made to remove the exact moment of stabbing in some versions.