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New Stabbing on Charlotte Train Gets Trump's Attention

Alleged assailant is in the country illegally

Police in North Carolina have charged a 33-year-old man with critically injuring another person in a stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train—just a few months after a fatal stabbing on a different city train. The latest assault did not escape President Trump's notice on Saturday.

Oscar Solarzano, 33, was charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and other crimes stemming from the Friday afternoon attack in which he wielded a large knife, said Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, per the AP. Police said the victim suffered a stab wound and was hospitalized in critical but stable condition.
Solarzano was being held in jail Saturday without bond. A magistrate judge said in a court filing that the suspect was in the US illegally and had previously been deported. ...

The assault comes less than four months after a 23-year-old woman from Ukraine was killed on a Charlotte commuter train in an apparently random assault captured on video. The victim, Iryna Zarutska, had been living in a bomb shelter in Ukraine before coming to the US to escape the war, her relatives said. A suspect, Decarlos Brown Jr., has been charged first-degree murder for Zarutska's killing in a North Carolina state court, and was also indicted in federal court on a charge of causing death on a mass transportation system.