India, Sept. 10 -- The brother of Decarlos Brown Jr., the career criminal accused of fatally stabbing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail, has criticized the system for allowing the mentally ill career criminal to go free on cashless bail. The 34-year-old ex-con ambushed Zarutska on the Lynx Blue Line just before 10 pm on August 22, as seen in surveillance footage.

"I think they could have pretty much prevented it then," Jeremiah, who shares a father with Brown, told the New York Post, referencing the lax terms that a judge set for Brown when he was released from prison in January.

Brown is a schizophrenic homeless man with a prison record. He was arrested several times in the past for violence.

"I didn't even kn...