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Decarlos Brown Jr. (34), the allegedly schizophrenic man accused of fatally stabbing the Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte, NC light rail train, has been indicted by a federal grand jury and may face the death penalty, according to reporting by Fox News.

"On Wednesday, the jury charged Brown with violence against a railroad carrier and mass transportation system resulting in death, which is a capital offense under federal law," the report said.

Zarutska deserves justice, and the American people need to see it happen. Before the public's mass trauma by Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the people were mass traumatized by the assassination of this beautiful young girl.

Since then, we've learned that her murderer was a known, dangerous schizophrenic that begged for help from a mental health system that failed him. This happens a lot, and it is also a preventable tragedy.

Despite strongly worded statements from public figures, mental health remains woefully underfunded across the nation, and what funding exists is a victim of waste, fraud, and abuse. It's also deprioritized in terms of health research — consider that, for every dollar spent on cancer research, only about 15 cents¹ goes toward serious mental illness research. The result is dangerously sick people with no accessible remedies.

And, as this horror story in NC taught us, it's getting worse.

The death penalty for Iryna Zarutska’s murderer makes sense — mental illness or not, we cannot allow these monsters to walk among us. There is no moral dilemma on this. Murder trumps mental illness.

Still, we the people must rise to meet the mental health imperative — and soon.

Especially here in the Centennial State where it often seems the patients are running the asylum.

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1. _{In 2022, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) allocated approximately $7.8 billion to cancer research, while funding for serious mental illness (SMI) research was about $1.2 billion. This results in a ratio of roughly 6.5:1, indicating that for every dollar spent on cancer research, about 15.4 cents is directed toward SMI research. Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding: FY1996-FY2025 Congressional Research Service, June 25, 2024}
   

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