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A North Carolina Judge on Monday ordered a Honduran man held without bail in a non-fatal stabbing case charlotte Commuter train on which the President’s comments came donald trump indicating that the suspect is in the country illegally.
Oscar Solórzano, 33, wearing an orange jumpsuit and appearing via video link, listened impassively as a translator read out the charges of attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon and other charges. Mecklenburg County District Judge Keith Smith has scheduled his next hearing for Dec. 30.
The public defender in the courtroom declined to comment.
Solórzano, also known as Oscar Gerardo Solórzano-Garcia, is accused of stabbing 24-year-old Kenyon Kareem Doby in the chest during a fight on the city’s Blue Line on Friday.
It was revealed in court that Solórzano was banned from Charlotte Area Transit Service property in October. CATS spokesman Brett Baldeck confirmed the ban, but provided no further details. “Our security team is now looking into this,” Baldeck said.
Department of Homeland Security Solórzano is said to have been deported twice and had previous convictions for robbery and illegal re-entry, but details were not immediately available.
DHS, which recently conducted an immigration crackdown around Charlotte and the state capital Raleigh, has placed a detainee in the custody of local authorities.
Attempts by the Associated Press to reach Dobie were unsuccessful. But he told WRAL that he confronted Solórzano for yelling at an elderly woman.
“I think it would be better if it happened to me and not some elderly person,” Dobie told the station.
“I wasn’t trying to be a macho man,” Dobie said in an interview. tiktok Post from his hospital room. “But I will not allow you to attack random people without any reason, especially the elderly.”
The incident comes just months after a Ukrainian refugee was killed in an unrelated knife attack aboard a train in the city.
Iryna Zarutska, 23, was living in a bomb shelter in Ukraine before coming to the United States to escape the war, her relatives said. DeCarlos Brown Jr. has been charged in state court with first-degree murder, and was also convicted in federal court of causing death on a mass transit system.
Like the August 22 attack, President Donald Trump and others in his administration point to the incident as evidence that Democratic-led cities are soft on crime.
Trump commented on the latest stabbing on his Truth Social site on Saturday, “Another stabbing by an illegal immigrant in Charlotte, North Carolina.” “What’s going on in Charlotte? The Democrats are destroying it, piece by piece, like everything else!!!”
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Breed reported from Wake Forest, North Carolina.