Decarlos Brown Jr. stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska because he believed she was reading his mind: sister

Accused Charlotte killer Decarlos Brown Jr. told his family he stabbed Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska to death on board a train because he believed she was reading his mind, his sister has revealed.

Tracey Brown, who was assaulted by her brother in a 2022 attack that saw him bite her and break a door, said her brother is a paranoid schizophrenic who told her multiple times the government had implanted a chip in him.

“A person that is hearing voices in their head and believes the world is against them, they’re going to break. And I think that night he broke,” she told CNN.

Tracey’s mother told CNN she tried to get Brown placed in a long-term mental care facility, but couldn’t because she wasn’t his legal guardian, she said.

 Tracey said her brother’s behavior deteriorated after he was freed from prison in 2022 following a five-year sentence for armed robbery.

“He didn’t seem like himself,” she said, describing how he struggled to hold conversations and became aggressive, failing to hold down a regular job.