By Emma O’neill,Michael D. Carroll

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The man accused of the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has spoken out from prison in a chilling phone call recorded by his sister. Decarlos Brown, 34, was caught on CCTV l aunching an unprovoked attack on Zarutska, 23, while she was engrossed in her phone during a train journey through Charlotte on 22 August, as reported by the Daily Mail. The shocking footage has sparked a wave of grief, outrage, and concerns over public safety in the Democrat-led city as the nation comes to terms with the horrifying incident . This news follows calls for the death penalty for the man charged with the brutal murder of the Ukrainian refugee on the train. His sister, Tracey Brown, 33, has now released unsettling audio to the Daily Mail of a conversation she had with Brown six days after his arrest, where he detailed his thought process during the horrific assault, according to the Express, reports the Mirror . The 34 year old, who suffers from schizophrenia, can be heard telling his sister that he believed the government had implanted foreign “materials” into his brain and they were controlling his actions when he attacked Iryna with a knife . In the audio recording from the afternoon of 28 August, Brown can be heard telling Tracey: “I hurt my hand, stabbing her . I don’t even know the lady. I never said not one word to the lady at all. That’s scary, ain’t it. Why would somebody stab somebody for no reason?” He further voiced his wish for the police to “investigate” the “materials” that were “controlling” him, whilst referring to the assailant in the third person. She disclosed that Brown had tried to admit himself to hospital numerous times over the past few years as his mental health spiralled out of control, but medics kept discharging him after just 24 hours. “I strongly feel like he should not have been on the streets at all,” Tracey declared. “I’m going to be honest. I’m not blaming anyone for his actions, except for the state. I’m blaming the state for letting him down as far as seeking help. When you have mentally ill people seeking help, and you’re running tests on them, and you clearly see that you are dealing with a psychosis on an acute level, you do not let them go back into society. ” He was a high risk . He was not in his right mind. He was not safe for society. An innocent woman is dead” – sister’s heart-breaking admission. “We know what he has been dealing with the last three years,” she added. “And now an innocent woman is dead. He was asking and crying for help, and no-one heard him or took him seriously. He reached a level of his mental illness that caused him to commit a heinous crime.” Brown repeatedly dialled 999, directly informing officers that he believed his brain was being manipulated by a microchip. The most recent incident took place on 19 January, when he was apprehended for “misuse of the 999 system” after calling the emergency line whilst officers were conducting a welfare check on him. During this episode, Brown told police he believed “man made” materials were implanted in his body, controlling his actions. “Brown wanted officers to investigate this ‘man-made’ material that was inside of his body,” the arrest affidavit states. “Officers advised Brown that the issue was a medical one and that there was nothing further they could do.” This response infuriated Brown, leading him to dial 999. Officers detained him and slapped him with a misdemeanor charge. “He was seeking help,” Tracey said. “He called 999 multiple times. Instead of talking to him they thought charging him was going to help.” Another opportunity to remove Brown from the streets presented itself when a magistrate was briefed about the matter at a hearing on 21 January, but she approved his cashless release on a “written promise” that he would appear in court. Tracey said the judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation for him through the courts, but “they pushed it back for a year and a half”. She disclosed to the Daily Mail that her brother was initially jailed for armed robbery in 2016, and when he emerged six years later, he had transformed into a “completely different person”. “When he came home, he was not the same brother that I remember,” she admitted. “He used to be quiet and self-reserved. But he wasn’t that brother any more. He was still quiet, but he seemed like he was out of sorts. He seemed like he was not in our reality any more. He seemed distant every time I spoke with him. I think being incarcerated caused some kind of trauma. “I could tell that he was still trying to talk like himself, but there was something there. It started coming out more and more.” “Every once in a while, he would bring up the microchip, and he would say ‘did you see that’, and just stop talking and stare out in space somewhere,” she added. “He thought that I was in on it or that my mother was in on it.” Brown had also been arrested for violent crimes before – including assaulting Tracey in her home shortly after his release from prison in 2022. “It started with us arguing about cleaning the house,” Tracey told the Daily Mail. “I had never had bugs, and I asked him to keep his room a little more clean. He would leave food in his room. “We went back and forth about that and it just kind of went from there. He flipped out. He bit my hand and I kicked him out. He knocked the hinges off the door trying to get back in.” Join the Daily Record’s WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Tracey disclosed that she reported the incident to the police, but later withdrew the charges as she couldn’t bear to take legal action against her own brother. “I dropped the charges because I understand him on a deeper level, because I was trying to put myself in his shoes,” she said. “I understood what he was going through and I knew that he just needed to talk about it. “I blame myself because I feel like I gave up on him by kicking him out of the house,” she added. “I feel like I did everything I could, but if I had known that it was deeper than what I thought… I beat myself up about it. I wish I could have seen how serious this was.” Tracey also revealed that she holds their mother accountable. She explained that she and Brown were removed from their parents’ care and spent most of their childhood in foster homes. Throughout this time, she was separated from Brown but they maintained an emotional bond. Don’t miss the latest news from around Scotland and beyond – Sign up to our daily newsletter here.