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An online fundraiser designed to support a career criminal who brutally murdered a Ukrainian girl onboard a train in North Carolina has sparked fury online. Decarlos Brown Jr. (pictured right), 35, is facing first-degree murder charges for stabbing Iryna Zarutska (pictured bottom), 23, onboard a South End light rail train in Charlotte on August 22. Shocking surveillance footage from the scene showed him watching Zarutska for some time after she sat in the seat in front of him, eventually taking out what appeared to be a blade from his pocket. He then stood up and loomed over the 23-year-old, swinging the knife at her as she sat with her phone.

Many were left outraged as news of the fundraiser spread online, with LibsofTikTok account calling it 'psychotic' and another person saying it was 'unbelievable.' '"Punitive sentencing?" Um yeah, I think it's gonna be really, really punitive,' a third added, while a fourth wrote: 'The inconvenient truth is some people are just 200 pounds of muscle and raw killing instinct.' It appears the fierce backlash to the fundraiser has already forced GoFundMe to remove it from its site. A spokesperson for the site told the Daily Mail: 'Terms of Service explicitly prohibits fundraisers that raise money for the legal defense of anyone formally charged with an alleged violent crime. Consistent with this longstanding policy, this fundraiser has been removed from the platform and the donors who contributed to the fundraiser have been fully refunded.'

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/gofundme-removes-fundraiser-for-man-who-stabbed-helpless-ukranian-refugee-to-death/ar-AA1M830k

GoFundMe has removed multiple fundraising pages supporting the man accused of brutally murdering a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train, following a storm of public outrage that branded the campaigns 'sickening' and 'horrific'. The crowdfunding platform confirmed on 8 September 2025 that it had taken down all pages set up for Decarlos Brown Jr, the 34-year-old man charged with stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska to death on the Lynx Blue Line on 22 August. The company said the campaigns breached its terms of service, which bar fundraising for individuals charged with violent crimes. The fundraisers had attempted to frame Brown as a victim of systemic racism and judicial failures, despite his extensive criminal record spanning 14 arrests and a previous six-year prison sentence for armed robbery.