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Crime is deep in Little Brown’s family. Freak of Homelessness Now Accused of stabbing A young Ukrainian commuter on the Charlotte Light Rail train killed a family and running with the law is a way of life.
Court records and law enforcement documents, viewed by Fox News Digital, reveal a disturbing family legacy: The alleged killer’s brother Stacey Dejon Brown was sentenced to 27 to 36 years in prison for killing a 65-year-old man by a shot shot shot in 2012 during the robbery.
His sister is 33 years old Criminal Records According to Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s office records, which include misdemeanor shoplifting, theft, felony conspiracy, theft and resistance to public officials, she was recently arrested in 2024 for misdemeanor, felony conspiracy and shopping burglary.
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Iryna Zarutska’s family demands justice since ‘terror’ stabbing

Decarlos Brown Jr. was allegedly photographed before stabbing Ukrainian refugees on the Charlotte Light Rail train on August 22, 2025. (News via the Charlotte Regional Transportation System)
According to the university’s campus, their father, Decarlos Brown Sr., was arrested for alleged break-in, felony, theft and possession of a weapon. New York Post. Brown could not comment.
Together, the cases show a generational cycle of crime, which is now reaching the end of the federal charges that killed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, 23, in August 2025, a refugee who fled the war-torn city in Ukraine just to die in an unmanned attack on U.S. soil.

Stacey Dejon Brown pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed robbery in the shooting death of 65-year-old Robert Heym in 2014. He was sentenced to 27-36 years in prison, according to the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office. (Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office)
GoFundMe raises funds for felons, accused of killing commuters in a random Charlotte train attack
Stacey, the little Brown brother, used it Charlotte Light Track Flee from police arrest in the 2012 Queens City murder case.
According to a press release from the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office, WBTV coverage, Stacey Brown, then 22, pleaded guilty to a series of violent crimes in April 2014, including second-degree murder, two counts of robbery, robbery with dangerous weapons, intent to assault and kill, intent to kill or break into a car, all in connection with the fatal shooting of 65-year-old Robert Heym during the robbery in October 2012.
Prosecutors revealed that after shooting Heim, Stacey and his accomplice, 21, boarded the train and exited the transport center.

Ukrainian Iryna Zarutska came to the United States to escape the war, but was stabbed to death in Charlotte on August 22, 2025. (evgeniya rush/gofundme)

Iryna Zarutsk, stabbing victim, flees Ukraine (GoFundMe)
Fast forward to August 22, and a similar background happened, Zaruska was stabbed to death on a train.
The violent encounter was captured in train surveillance videos. The Justice Department (DOJ) noted in a complaint filed Tuesday that Brown Jr. was captured on the camera, causing “blood from him” on the train.
Zarutska was in Brown Jr., according to the police affidavit.
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Department of Justice attacks Charlotte train stabbing suspect and charges federally
Federal authorities Brown Jr. announced Tuesday
“Iryna Zarutska may have been on the train multiple times. She may have been tired after working for a day and just wanted to go home, but sadly she never did it,” said James C. Barnacle Jr., chief of FBI Charlotte. “We hope this federal charge will help her family with some justice and the court will hold this terrible act responsible. Everyone in this country should go to work, school or in the city without fear of being attacked.”

Book a photo of Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., taken on August 28, 2025, a few days after the fatal light rail stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Iryna Zarutska. (Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office)
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Brown has been accused of First-degree murder Zarutska was allegedly killed in state court.