India, Sept. 9 -- Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska's alleged killer, Decarlos Brown Jr., once asked police to investigate a "'man-made' material that was inside of his body." The 34-year-old career criminal ambushed and stabbed Zarutska to death on a Charlotte light rail train. The 23-year-old woman had fled her war-torn home to seek safety in the United States.

Brown, who has now been charged with first-degree murder, was arrested several times in the past since 2011 for felony larceny, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and communicating threats, according to court records obtained by the New York Post. A homeless man, he served five years in prison for the robbery with a deadly weapon charge, WSOC-TV reported. Other previous charges wer...