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.
Newsweek has also contacted Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) via email outside of normal office hours on Monday.
Why It Matters
The removal of GoFundMe pages highlights how online fundraising platforms apply content rules to campaigns tied to criminal cases and intersects with broader public debate about public safety and platform moderation.
President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to several Democrat-run cities as part of a crackdown on crime. Charlotte’s mayor is a Democrat.