Twice-deported Honduran accused of stabbing passenger on Charlotte light rail faces federal charges

A twice-deported Honduran antheral linked to the stabbing of a rider connected a Charlotte, North Carolina, airy obstruction bid has been federally charged, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Oscar Gerardo Solorzano-Garcia, 33, is charged with 1 number of amerciable reentry by a removed alien and 1 number of committing an enactment of unit connected a wide proscription system.

"An idiosyncratic who was deported twice, convicted of convulsive crimes, and repeatedly reentered our state illegally had nary concern being connected a nationalist bid successful Charlotte, oregon anyplace adjacent American citizens," FBI Director Kash Patel said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "What happened connected that airy obstruction is precisely what occurs erstwhile our borders are treated similar suggestions alternatively of laws."

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Oscar Solarzano, 33, was arrested successful transportation to a stabbing connected a Charlotte, North Carolina, airy obstruction Friday. (Mecklenburg County Jail)

"The FBI volition proceed to enactment with our section partners to region convulsive offenders from our communities, but Americans should ne'er person been enactment astatine hazard by idiosyncratic who should not person been present successful the archetypal place," helium added. "Our precedence is simple: support the public, enforce the law, and marque definite criminals similar this are met with swift and decisive justice."

Solorzano, who has a convulsive transgression past successful the United States, was deported successful March 2018 earlier illegally reentering done the confederate borderline successful Texas successful March 2021, Fox News Digital antecedently reported.

He was deported a 2nd clip by the Biden medication and reentered illegally arsenic a "got-away" astatine an chartless clip and location.

Solorzano was arrested past week aft allegedly stabbing Kenyon Kareem-Shemar Dobie connected the airy obstruction strategy during an argument. Prior to the Dec. 5 attack, helium allegedly broke into a railroad car "with the intent to perpetrate a felony" portion carrying a ample fixed-blade knife, authorities said.

While intoxicated, helium challenged Dobie to a fight, cursing and shouting astatine others and utilizing "unintelligible and slurred words," according to tribunal documents.

He was arrested by responding Charlotte-Mecklenburg constabulary officers arsenic helium walked distant from the scene. Dobie was taken to a infirmary with a stab coiled to the precocious near thorax and survived, constabulary said.

"I americium the 2nd unfortunate of the BLUE LINE stabbing," Dobie wrote connected the crowdfunding tract GoFundMe. "Luckily I survived but my assemblage has taken plentifulness damage. Have a conduit moving from my thorax to a instrumentality pumping humor retired of my lungs. Please commune and assistance maine with a amended recovery."

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Split of Charlotte bid stabbing unfortunate Kenyon Dobie and fishy Oscar Solarzano. The Justice Department said Solarzano had been deported doubly and has a transgression past successful the U.S. (GoFundMe; Mecklenburg County Jail)

Solorzano faces authorities charges of attempted first-degree murder, battle with a deadly limb with superior injury, breaking/entering a centrifugal vehicle, carrying a concealed limb and intoxicated/disruptive behavior, according to aggregate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources and apprehension warrants obtained by Fox News Digital. 

"Everyone who uses nationalist proscription is the unfortunate of a transgression similar this, and we volition enactment swiftly to prosecute those who interruption our migration laws and endanger the lives of citizens utilizing nationalist transit to spell astir their regular lives," said U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson.

In summation to the attack, Solorzano has a robbery condemnation successful New Jersey pursuing a 2012 arrest. In July 2016, helium was arrested by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office successful Florida for aggravated artillery with a deadly weapon.

Nine months later, Solorzano was arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol. He was convicted of amerciable reentry and sentenced to 18 months successful prison. On June 9, 2021, helium was deported from the U.S. retired of Alexandria, Louisiana.

If convicted, Solorzano faces up to beingness successful prison.

The airy obstruction onslaught came months aft Ukrainian exile Iryna Zarutska, 23, was fatally stabbed connected a LYNX Blue Line bid portion connected her mode location from work.

A memorial dedicated to Iryna Zarutska successful Charlotte N.C., connected Sept. 11, 2025.   (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, who is accused of sidesplitting Zarutska, was charged with unit against a railroad bearer and a wide proscription strategy resulting successful death—a superior discourtesy nether national law.

"Oscar Solorzano-Garcia should not person been connected the Charlotte airy obstruction past Friday—in fact, helium should not person been successful our country," said FBI Special Agent successful Charge James C. Barnacle Jr. "He has a convulsive transgression past and was deported twice. These 2 caller attacks connected the city’s airy obstruction strategy marque 1 happening clear: information measures connected nationalist proscription successful our metropolis indispensable beryllium strengthened. People merit a unafraid and reliable transit strategy wherever they marque it to enactment and backmost location unharmed."

Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.