The man charged with the brutal knife attack on a Ukrainian refugee aboard the commuter train in Charlotte now faces federal trial and a possible death sentence.
The federal grand jury indictment on a charge of causing death on a mass transportation system keeps a death sentence on the table for Decarlos Brown Jr. if prosecutors decide to seek it.
Brown is accused of stabbing 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska in an apparently random attack captured on video. He's also charged with the killing in state court, but federal prosecutors stepped in amid the outrage about why Brown was on the street despite 14 prior criminal arrests, including one earlier this year, after repeatedly calling 911 from a hospital, claiming people were trying to control him.