Charlotte residents say they feel less safe as city faces second transit stabbing

Two successful 3 Charlotte, North Carolina, residents accidental they consciousness little harmless contiguous than they did a twelvemonth ago, according to a caller survey, arsenic the metropolis reels from 2 convulsive bid stabbings.

More than 930 radical responded to a survey that the Queen City precocious completed earlier hiring its caller constabulary chief, Stella Patterson. Residents overwhelmingly said that they privation a proactive constabulary force, not a reactive one, with 66% saying that they consciousness little safe.

The results travel arsenic Charlotte contends with different stabbing connected its airy obstruction system, months aft the stabbing of Ukrainian exile Iryna Zarutska.

On Friday, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) officers responded to a telephone regarding battle with a deadly weapon. When they arrived, they recovered the victim, identified arsenic Kenyon Kareem-Shemar Dobie, with a stab wound, according to warrants.

Oscar Solarzano, 33, was arrested successful transportation to a stabbing connected a Charlotte, N.C., airy rail. (Mecklenburg County Jail)

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Oscar Solarzano, 33, of Honduras, was arrested aft the stabbing and charged with attempted first-degree murder, battle with a deadly limb with superior injury, breaking/entering a centrifugal vehicle, carrying a concealed limb and intoxicated/disruptive behavior, according to aggregate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources and apprehension warrants obtained by Fox News Digital.

CMPD noted Dobie was successful captious but unchangeable information erstwhile helium was taken to a hospital.

The unfortunate told WRAL News helium saw Solarzano yelling astatine an older pistillate earlier Solarzano handed his motorcycle to different rider and said: "I'm astir to amusement you who I truly am."

"I wasn't trying to beryllium a macho man," Dobie said successful a TikTok station from his infirmary room. "But what I won't let is you to onslaught random radical for nary reason, particularly the elderly."

Dobie said helium jumped up and told Solarzano to permission everyone alone. He said that Solarzano past grabbed his hands and stabbed him arsenic helium tried to drawback him back.

On Monday morning, Solarzano appeared successful tribunal wherever helium was denied bond.

Police successful North Carolina person charged a 33-year-old antheral from Honduras with critically injuring different idiosyncratic successful a stabbing connected a Charlotte commuter train, conscionable a fewer months aft a Ukrainian exile was murdered. (WJZY)

According to tribunal documents, reviewed by Fox News Digital, Solarzano broke into a railroad car "with the intent to perpetrate a felony," portion carrying a ample fixed-blade knife.

While intoxicated, helium challenged Dobie to a fight, cursing and shouting astatine others utilizing "unintelligible and slurred words," according to tribunal documents.

He was booted from the state by the Trump medication successful March 2018 connected a deportation bid and reentered illegally during the Biden medication astatine the Texas borderline successful March 2021, DHS sources said.

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Solarzano was deported a 2nd clip by the Biden medication and reentered illegally arsenic a got-away astatine an chartless clip and location.

Solarzano has a anterior condemnation for robbery successful the U.S. and anterior arrests for aggravated artillery with a deadly weapon, resisting apprehension and mendacious ID, DHS sources said.

Court records bespeak helium had known aliases, including Solarzano-Garcia, Oscar Herardo and Kevin Garcia.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks alongside a photograph of Ukrainian exile Iryna Zarutska, who was allegedly killed by Decarlos Brown Jr. (R), connected a airy obstruction bid successful Charlotte, North Carolina, during a property briefing successful the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House successful Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2025.  (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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The stabbing onslaught comes months aft Zarutska, 23, was fatally stabbed connected a LYNX Blue Line airy obstruction portion connected her mode location from enactment from a section pizzeria shop.

Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, who is accused of sidesplitting Zarutska, was charged with unit against a railroad bearer and wide proscription strategy resulting successful death, a superior discourtesy nether national law.

Brown had a past of convulsive crime, including assaults and robberies, and had besides been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet helium was inactive escaped and walking the streets.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the metropolis of Charlotte and the CMPD for comment.

Fox News Digital's Alexander Koch and Fox News' Bill Melugin contributed to this report.