Knife attacks in the United States

On August 22, 2025, Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman, was killed at the East/West Boulevard station on the Lynx Blue Line, in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee who had fled her country because of the Russian invasion, was fatally stabbed from behind while seated on the train. The suspect, Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., was arrested upon exiting the train and charged with first-degree murder. In December 2025, he was determined to be incapable of proceeding to trial on state charges.

spree killing which occurred in Isla Vista, California

murder in Springfield, Missouri in 2015

salesman Travis Alexander was murdered in his home in Mesa, Arizona in 2008

death of four students at the University of Idaho on November 13, 2022

murder case in New York

an American teenager stabbed to death in Utica, New York on July 14, 2019

1986 murders of Islamic scholars in the U.S.