A repeat offender has been arrested in Charlotte after a disturbing social media video showed him recording himself screaming at a woman and punching her in the same city where Iryna Zarutska was stabbed last year, according to police.The man, Di-Quan Schafar Hunt, 32, has a long record of arrests, including being arrested nine times in the last three years.The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Hunt punched a woman on the street during the July 30 assault before running away.
Police said the woman was taken to a hospital with "serious but non-life-threatening" injuries after the attack.Hannah Goetz, a reporter for local outlet WSOC, posted video of the incident on X showing Hunt yelling, "Don’t wave at me" to a woman passing by on the street.The video then shows him sucker-punching her to the ground.He then stands over her, points his finger in her face and slaps her, yelling, "You still talking? July 21st.
Say Elijah, say, Elijah."CHARLOTTE TRAIN STABBING SUSPECT DODGES POTENTIAL DEATH PENALTY FOR NOW AFTER HE'S RULED INCOMPETENTDi-Quan Schafar Hunt has been arrested nine times since 2023, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office.(Streeter Lecka/Getty Images; Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office)Police are also investigating Hunt in connection with several similar assaults on women that authorities say he recorded himself committing.
Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office records show he has been arrested nine times in the last three years on charges including trespassing, simple assault, assault on a female, assault with a deadly weapon, resisting an officer, violating a protective order, contempt of court, breaking or entering and probation violations.According to Goetz, Hunt was convicted in 2020 of shooting into an occupied building or vehicle.He was arrested in December after authorities accused him of threatening a man with a knife near a Charlotte public transit line.Another video said to have been recorded by Hunt shows him chasin...