GoFundMe Responds to Decarlos Brown Jr. Fundraiser
Violence In America,North Carolina,Ukraine,Crime,Murders,Fundraising
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Fundraising site GoFundMe has said donation pages for a man suspected of murdering a Ukrainian refugee on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month have "been removed."
Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, has been charged with the murder of 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed on August 22.
Screengrabs posted to social media over the weekend showed several GoFundMe fundraisers had been launched for Brown Jr.
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