His sister, Tracey Brown, described him as “a paranoid schizophrenic” following a jailhouse visit after the stabbing.

“When I went to visit him, he was mumbling and talking to himself,” she told The Post. “And I said, ‘Well, what’s on your mind?’ He looked at me and he was like, ‘I have to get you to.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean you have to get me?’ He said, ‘You and mama. Y’all are being trafficked.’ And I said, ‘Well, how are we being trafficked?’ And he said, ‘The government is trafficking y’all to get to me.’”

A Life Cut Short

Zarutska, who once dreamed of building a future free from violence, instead became the victim of it. The family’s attorney summed it up simply:

“That night, she texted her boyfriend that she would be home soon. Tragically, her journey ended in violence near the Camden light rail station.”