DESPERATE onlookers fought to save train stabbing victim Iryna Zarutska, a horrifying 911 audio has revealed.
Ukrainian refugee Iryna, 23, was killed in a random attack on a Charlotte Area Transit System in North Carolina on August 22.
The hooded knifeman slashed at Zarutska on the train[/caption]
Iryna, 23, was killed in the random attack[/caption]
Decarlos Brown Jr. has been charged with first-degree murder[/caption]
Horrific CCTV footage captured the brutal attack showing the hooded knifeman, who was behind her, slashing at Zarutska who had her headphones in and was oblivious to what was going on.
Passengers scream and scatter as she collapses.
Decarlos Brown Jr. has been charged with first-degree murder and with committing an act causing death on a mass transportation system.
The second charge makes him eligible for the death penalty. He has not yet entered a plea.
Now, the multiple 911 calls made by shaken onlookers in the wake of the brutal attack have been released.
The audio reveals a bloody and hopeless scene, with one witness telling emergency call handlers: “This man just f**king stabbed this woman for no reason.”
In another call released by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department on Wednesday a witness says: “She lost a lot of blood.”
“Please hurry, she’s bleeding. She’s bleeding a lot,” a caller adds.
Another says: “There’s just a lady right now on the ground with a lot of blood. People are just freaking out.”
“There’s a lot of people around her, they’re all saying that she’s gone.
“I think she’s gone.”
President Donald Trump has called for the killer to receive the death penalty.
A fundraiser for the pizzeria-worker’s family described how she had “recently arrived in the United States, seeking safety from the war and hoping for a new beginning”.
Brown Jr. was on the street despite 14 prior criminal arrests before he was accused of pulling out a knife and killing Zarutska.
“Iryna Zarutska was a young woman living the American dream — her horrific murder is a direct result of failed soft-on-crime policies that put criminals before innocent people,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement.
“We will seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable act of violence — he will never again see the light of day as a free man.”
The suspect’s mother told local television she sought an involuntary psychiatric commitment this year after he became violent at home. Doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia.
Iryna Zarutska died on a Charlotte Area Transit System on August 22[/caption]
Brown Jr. was on the street despite 14 prior criminal arrests before he was accused of pulling out a knife and killing Zarutska[/caption]
