Almost as shocking as the brutal race-murder of Iryna Zarutska on a North Carolina train was the reactions of those surrounding her. To a one, they all immediately got up and walked away. They didn’t even flee: they practically rolled their eyes and stomped off, as if a young woman being stabbed to death was just another inconvenience, like a drunk throwing up or a hobo putting his feet up on the seats.
Not everybody was so callous. As I wrote at the time, one young man rushed from the other end of the carriage and tried to save Zarutska’s life. First he applied pressure to her neck to try and stop the bleeding, then took off his shirt and used that to try and staunch the bleeding. Whoever that hero was, he remains nameless.
Well, another day, another stabbing on the trains in Charlotte, North Carolina.
This time, it’s the hero good Samaritan who was stabbed by a vicious illegal immigrant criminal – and we know his name.
Kenyon Dobie, 24, stepped up to try and protect other passengers from being attacked. His heroism has left him in hospital in critical condition, with a tube pumping blood from his lungs.
“My body has taken plenty damage,’’ Dobie said on a GoFundMe page. “Have a tube running from my chest to a machine pumping blood out of my lungs.’’
Prosecutors said Honduran national Oscar Solarzarno, 33, was swigging booze and yelling at riders when Dobie stood up and told him to stop on the Friday night train.
Solarzano knifed him in the chest for his efforts, prosecutors said at a hearing Monday, according to WSOC-TV.
Solarzano was already banned from the light rail system, which clearly meant as much to him as US immigration laws.
The ban is part of a long rap sheet for Solarzano that includes multiple arrests, a robbery conviction – and two deportations.
Solzarno fled the train, but police caught up to him, and Solzarno allegedly admitted to the attack – with eyes red and reeking of alcohol.
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia Lockwood said Solarzano had been deported from the US twice before illegally returning to the country again for a third time.
“His criminal history includes prior arrests for aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, destroying evidence, resisting arrest, using a false ID, and convictions for robbery and illegally re-entry,” she wrote on X.
Solzarno faces new charges of first-degree attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon causing serious injury, breaking and entering, carrying a concealed weapon and being intoxicated and disruptive, according to court records. He is being held without bond.
Until a Democrat-appointed federal judge sets him free again.
Dobie’s GoFundMe page has already raised US$97K at the time of writing.
