The mother of Decarterlus Brown, the suspect of the deadly appeal of a Ukrainian woman in Charlotte Light, says he struggled with mental illness for years after he was released from prison and that he claimed that there was a “substance” in his body controlling him.
Brown, 34, was arrested on August 22, after the police said that he stabbed Erina Zarutska three times while riding the blue icon line in Charlotte, according to a written statement obtained by ABC News.
In the audio recordings of a conversation between Brown and his sister several days after his arrest, he was obtained by ABC News, Brown confirms that he has a “substance” in his body, which made him attack Zarutska.
“Make sure that I did that, not the material. I tell you, the materials did so,” said Brown, according to the recordings.
The suspect can hear his sister that he did not “know the lady at all.”
Decarlos Brown JR. , 34 years old, on August 22 to stab a 23 -year -old woman on the light railway of Charlotte, according to the Charlotte McClampurg Police Administration.
Charlotte McClampurg Police Department
“I never said one word of the lady at all. This is frightening, right? Thus, like, why did someone stab someone without reason?” Brown can be heard while telling his sister.
The Ministry of Justice said on Tuesday that Brown was accused by the US Public Prosecutor’s Office in the West Province in North Carolina, of a law causing death on the mass transportation system, which could make him eligible for the death penalty.
“This brutal attack on an innocent woman is simply trying to reach her destination is an attack on the American way of life. Of course, such crimes affect the victim more than others – Irina deserves justice, and we will bring justice to her and her family,” American lawyer Ross Ferguson said in a statement on Tuesday.
Brown’s sister and her mother said that they have noticed a difference in his behavior after his imprisonment, which ended in 2020, and that he has worsened over the three years since his release.
Braun’s mother, Michel Diite, said that her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia and after his time in prison, he was “different”.
“It was not the normal Carlos, Carlos fun,” Diite told ABC News in a separate interview.
34 -year -old suspect has a criminal record including theft, breach and charges. He also spent five years in prison for stealing with a dangerous weapon starting in 2015, according to the Ministry of Adult Correction in North Carolina. He was also arrested this year for the use of the 911 system, according to court records.
In total, Brown was charged 14 times in the past, including the arrest in January, but it was “still in the streets” leading to the attack.
Iryna Zarutska in a photo posted on Instagram.
Iryna Zarutska/Instagram
Braun’s mother told the mother of Abc News that after her son released from prison in 2020 after spending time for armed theft, “he was different” and began to show violent behavior such as closing doors and screaming in her face. Diite said that while he was living with her, he was also wandering at home and talking to himself.
Diite said that her son had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and was given a drug, but she said he refused to take it.
Diite said that we are increasingly concerned about her safety and husband and took Brown to a mental health hospital. She said that the hospital told her that they had no enough space to admit Braun and because he did not threaten to harm himself, they could not take him.
She said the hospital told her: “You cannot make someone come” to the facility.
Dioite said that she left no choice but to go to the court to apply to a petition judge to her son for help. She said that as a result of mental health, Braun kept for 14 days, but he finally took him out to take care of her husband.
Irina Zarutska, who was not photographed, stabbed death in an excluded attack while riding a light railway in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the Charlotte McClorg Police Department.
Charlotte area transfer system
She said she was hoping to keep Brown in a schedule and create a routine for him, but he did not succeed after he stopped taking his medicine.
“We will not do it anymore,” Diite said about her feeling and her husband at that time. “We left it in a shelter.”
The mother determined this shelter as a roof over the Lusail Gillls refuge for men in Charlotte, which is run by a non -profit organization called the ceiling above.
ABC News reached the shelter, but no one from the shelter was immediately available for comment.
In recent months, Diite said that she had seen her son on the street, walking up and down, and her younger daughter saw him riding the bus.
When he was arrested in January because of the abuse of 911, she said he had been saying “he had a segment in it”, and that “the police put it in it.”
According to the written statement of Brown’s arrest in January, the officers were responding to the call of social welfare when Brown told them that he believed that someone gave him a “man -made” material controlling what he ate and how to walk and spoke.
The next court of Bru they will appear on September 19, according to the court records. It is not clear if Brown has a lawyer who can speak on his behalf.
Braun’s sister, Trissy Brown, said that she is not trying to unable to make her alleged brother’s actions.
“At the end of the day, I do not make any excuse for what happened,” she said. “I say that if he has the right care, this will not happen.”