DeCarlos Brown Jr., a 35-year-old homeless man with a long criminal history, has been ruled incompetent to proceed on state murder charges in the random stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s Lynx Blue Line light rail last August. Brown faces both state first-degree murder charges and federal charges for the August 22 attack. On Tuesday, his state public defender filed a motion in Mecklenburg Superior Court saying that a court-ordered capacity evaluation found Brown “incapable to proceed.” The evaluation was completed in December at Central Regional Hospital. Mecklenburg District Attorney Spencer Merriweather’s office agreed to delay Brown’s Rule 24 hearing, where prosecutors would decide whether to seek the death penalty in the state case, for another six months. The Charlotte Observer reports:…
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