Bodycam shows Charlotte train murder suspect's interaction with police months before Iryna Zarutska stabbing

Newly released bodycam footage shows Charlotte airy obstruction execution fishy Decarlos Brown Jr. telling officers that a "man-made material" was controlling his assemblage months earlier helium allegedly stabbed Iryna Zarutska to death.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released footage connected Tuesday of officers responding to a payment cheque concerning Brown successful January. Brown called 911 himself to study that a "man-made material" had been placed wrong his assemblage and was controlling him.

One serviceman astatine the country questioned Brown, asking, "You deliberation you got idiosyncratic wrong controlling you?" 

Brown doubled down and said the worldly was placed wrong him without his "permission oregon authorization," adding that it controls each of his bodily functions, including what helium eats.

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The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department released bodycam footage from a January 2025 incidental involving Decarlos Brown Jr., who is accused of sidesplitting a pistillate connected a airy obstruction bid successful August 2025. (Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department)

"I request you guys to analyse owed to the information that medic ain't got nary trial oregon scan to analyse what my assemblage got exposed to," Brown said.

Brown could beryllium seen successful the bodycam footage explaining that helium "woke up connected the ground" and that "somebody did thing to my body."

The incidental took spot months earlier Brown allegedly killed 23-year-old Zarutska connected a LYNX Blue Line airy obstruction successful August. Authorities person described the convulsive stabbing onslaught arsenic unprovoked.

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Booking photograph of DeCarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., taken Jan. 20, 2025, pursuing his apprehension successful Mecklenburg County for misusing the 911 system. (Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO))

During the astir 30-minute encounter, officers advised Brown to question aesculapian valuation astatine a hospital. 

While officers were inactive astatine the scene, Brown placed a 2nd 911 telephone requesting assistance. He was arrested and charged with misuse of the 911 system.

Brown told the officers that doctors had tried to diagnose him with schizophrenia, but that "they got it wrong."

"I’m mentally perfect," helium added.

Despite Brown’s comments, CMPD said officers did not initiate an involuntary committedness due to the fact that helium did not verbalize intent to harm himself oregon others.

Decarlos Brown Jr. is accused of fatally stabbing Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, connected a Charlotte airy obstruction bid connected Aug. 22, 2025. (NewsNation via Charlotte Area Transit System)

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North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records uncover that Brown has an extended transgression record, including convictions for larceny, breaking and entering, and equipped robbery.

He began a five-year situation condemnation successful 2015.