Another Career Criminal Assaults Woman In Same City Where Iryna Zarutska Was Killed

By Derek Vanbuskirk

A man with multiple prior arrests was charged Thursday with assaulting a woman in Charlotte, North Carolina, the same city where Iryna Zarutska was killed, police say.

The suspect, 32-year-old Di-Quan Schafar Hunt, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department identified a social media account containing multiple videos under investigation, the department said in a statement.

Among the videos was one that appears to show Hunt filming himself committing an assault that had been reported on July 30, police said. (RELATED: Watch Cop Bring Mass Shooter’s Rampage To Screeching Halt)

The reports said the suspect had punched the victim on a sidewalk before fleeing the scene as the victim was transported to a hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, the statement said.

The video has been circulating on social media and remains on its original Instagram account.

The video begins with what appears to be Hunt rambling about “the real issue” of July 21 before turning the camera around to show a woman in a pink tank top carrying a balloon walking opposite Hunt on the sidewalk.

“Don’t wave to me,” he yells before punching the woman, causing her to collapse to the ground.

As the woman lies there with her eyes open, but unable to move or respond, Hunt films himself slapping the victim multiple times while pointing at her and yelling about July 21 and his son Elijah.

Another video was shared by the same account showing Hunt taking the woman’s sunglasses before walking away.

An earlier video also shared by Hunt shows him chasing down a woman while repeatedly yelling, “What’s up with that McDonald’s sh*t?” as the woman runs into oncoming traffic to escape Hunt.

“You Donald Trump motherf*cker, and that other motherf*cker, who raped my son Elijah, I’m going to f*cking kill you, n*gga,” he rambled.

🚨#BREAKING: I have obtained footage of a Black male attacking a White woman on the streets of Charlotte NC.

It is horrifying to watch.

He appears to attack her for no reason while she walks on the sidewalk, he CHASES her, and says he will k*ll her.

He has not been arrested. pic.twitter.com/8OiCWt3ow1

— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) August 6, 2026

Hunt was taken into custody before being transported to a local medical facility for treatment and will be transferred to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office to face the charges after his release, police said.

County records show the 5-foot-9 black male had previously been arrested at least nine times, including two counts of breaking or entering, injury to personal property, and three counts of assault, including one with a deadly weapon and another against a woman.

Charlotte is the same city where Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, was stabbed in the neck and killed in August 2025, with a video that was also shared widely on social media.

The video showed the killer, a black man named Decarlos Brown Jr., stabbing Zarutska in the neck unprovoked, as she grabbed her bleeding neck while bleeding out on the floor of the light rail. (RELATED: DOJ Announces Plans To Deport Immigrant Family In First Alien Terrorist Removal Court Case, Citing Election-Day Plot)

Brown was also declared mentally unfit, with the local U.S. attorney deciding he was not yet able to stand trial in June. Brown had a lengthy criminal history, before killing Zarutska. He had been left free despite a long criminal record, including serious crimes and 14 arrests.

A previously-deported illegal alien stabbed a victim on the same rail system soon after Brown stabbed Zarutska to death.

Failing to incarcerate violent people leads to more violence and crime. When Italy released inmates early, that increased its crime rate significantly, according to a 2014 study. (See Alessandro Barbarino & Giovanni Mastrobuono, the Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration from Several Italian Collective Pardons, American Economic Journal, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-37 (2014)). Other studies find similar results.

When El Salvador increased its incarceration rate, its murder rate fell by more than 90%. The U.S. Sentencing Commission found in 2022 that violent offenders returned to crime after being released, at a 63.8% rate over an 8-year period. 

One progressive prosecutor lets a fifth of all killers escape a conviction by agreeing to their plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which would almost certainly be rejected by a jury. Less than 1 percent of all killers are actually legally insane enough to qualify for an insanity plea, but that progressive prosecutor colludes with defense lawyers to accept what appear to be bogus insanity pleas.