A 32-year-old Charlotte man with at least nine prior arrests allegedly recorded himself punching and chasing women on city streets, posting the footage to social media, after courts repeatedly let him off with minimal consequences.
Di-Quan Hunt was charged with assault on a Thursday evening at around 7:30 p.m. after Charlotte-Mecklenburg police matched viral videos to an attack reported on July 30 near East Boulevard in Charlotte, North Carolina. In one video, a woman was punched repeatedly on a sidewalk. She was taken to a local hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The motive remains unclear.
But the assault charge is only the latest entry in a record that stretches back more than a decade, a record that raises pointed questions about why Hunt was free to walk Charlotte's streets at all.
Police say they identified Hunt after reviewing social media videos he allegedly posted. The footage did not surface through bystanders or security cameras. Hunt, according to investigators, recorded the assaults and uploaded them to his own accounts.
In one clip, Hunt allegedly screamed at a woman before striking her. Fox News reported that a comment posted to the suspect's social media account after one apparent attack read:
"Ahhhh feels GOOD!!!"
A second video allegedly shows Hunt confronting and harassing another woman, who escaped by running into the road. A third shows him chasing a woman into oncoming traffic. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police confirmed that one of the videos depicted the July 30 assault in the 400 block of East Boulevard, in which the suspect punched the victim on a sidewalk before fleeing.
In footage captured from one of the incidents, Hunt can allegedly be heard shouting threats, including "I'm gonna f***ing kill you" and referencing someone named Elijah. The significance of those statements has not been explained by police.
Hunt's criminal history is not a short list of minor infractions. The New York Post reported that his record dates back to 2012 and includes multiple assault-on-a-female charges, domestic violence protective order violations, and weapons offenses. He has been arrested at least nine times in the past 34 months alone, since October 2023, on charges including assault, assault with a deadly weapon, trespassing, and domestic violence violations.
Between 2012 and 2019, Hunt was arrested three times for assault on a female and three times for violating domestic violence protective orders. Breitbart reported that all of those cases were dismissed.
A 2019 guilty plea did result in a prison sentence of 20 to 36 months. Hunt was released after serving roughly one year.
Then came the incident at a Charlotte light rail station late last year. An unnamed man told local station WBTV that Hunt lifted his shirt to display weapons and issued a direct threat:
"He lifted his shirt up and I saw weapons. He had a gun, which police said they never found, he had a knife and a hatchet."
The man said Hunt then asked him a single question:
"Are you ready to die today?"
Hunt was charged with misdemeanor assault with a deadly weapon for that encounter. On March 18, he entered a plea deal covering both the assault with a deadly weapon charge and a charge for carrying a concealed weapon. His sentence: time served, 89 days in Mecklenburg County Jail. No additional prison time.
The light rail victim told WBTV he went to court in March expecting accountability. Instead, prosecutors offered Hunt the plea deal without meaningful input from the man Hunt had allegedly threatened with weapons.
"They pulled me into a room and basically said that they felt he had been punished enough and were giving him time served. I was shocked, but what am I going to say to the District Attorney? I tried to put my two cents in and they didn't want to hear that."
The man did not hold back about what he thought the outcome meant for public safety:
"They need to lock these people up. It's time to stop giving them a pass."
He said the justice system would now "owe everyone an apology", a reference to the women Hunt allegedly attacked after walking free on the plea deal.
District Attorney Spencer Merriweather has not publicly responded. The Daily Mail reported reaching out to Merriweather and the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office for comment. Neither response has been published.
The timeline tells a straightforward story. Hunt accumulated arrests for violent and threatening behavior over more than a decade. Courts dismissed case after case. A guilty plea produced a sentence that was cut short. A weapons-related plea deal produced no new jail time. And months later, viral videos showed a man police identified as Hunt punching women on Charlotte sidewalks and chasing them into traffic, while filming it all for social media.
No single prosecutor or judge made every decision along the way. But the cumulative result is a man with a documented history of violence against women who faced no barrier serious enough to keep him off the street. Each leniency was a separate choice. The women who were attacked lived with the combined consequences.
Charlotte has seen this pattern before. The New York Post noted that the case drew attention alongside a broader string of violent random attacks in the city, including the 2025 fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train.
Hunt now faces a new assault charge. Several open questions remain: what specific charges were filed at his latest arrest beyond "assault," whether police have confirmed his identity in all of the viral videos, and whether additional victims have come forward. His current custody status has not been publicly confirmed.
When a system releases the same violent offender nine times and the tenth arrest comes with video he filmed himself, the system is not failing by accident. It is failing by choice, and the people who pay for it are the ones who never had a say.
