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Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, are facing sharp criticism over the fatal stabbing of a young Ukrainian refugee on a commuter train last month. The death has drawn attention from President Donald Trump and MAGA allies who blame Democrats for what they say is out-of-control crime in blue cities. Critics say the 23-year-old's death could have been prevented, and say officials failed to keep a man with a history of mental illness, arrests and erratic behavior off the streets before he killed her. Trump on Monday called the suspect “a madman, a lunatic."  Police say the woman fled the war in Ukraine only to be killed in an apparently random attack in August.