The family of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was stabbed to death in North Carolina, has filed a lawsuit seeking damages, alleging the City of Charlotte and hired parties failed to prevent the circumstances that led to her killing.
The wrongful death lawsuit filed on Aug.21 alleges Zarutska’s death was preventable.
The suit claims that the City of Charlotte and Professional Police Services, a private security company contracted by the Charlotte Area Transit System, were aware of violent crime issues on the city’s 9.6‑mile LYNX Blue Line but failed to take reasonable safety measures.
It claimed that long before Iryna Zarutska boarded that train, defendants “knew that violent crime had repeatedly occurred on and around the Blue Line and the Charlotte Transportation Center.”…