Di Quan Schafar Hunt is 32 years old, 5 feet 9 inches, 220 pounds, and was arrested Thursday evening at 7:30 PM in Charlotte, North Carolina. His expected charge: assault with a deadly weapon. The videos flooding social media show why — women attacked on the street, visciousuly punched and physically assaulted. As he walked up to one random woman walking nonchalantly on the sidewalk holding balloons he said to her, "Nah, don't wave to me" before the assault began.
Here's the part that should make your blood boil: Hunt had been arrested nine times in Mecklenburg County over just the past 34 months.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Police say they learned of the incidents on July 30, though the first alleged assault dates back to July 21. Surveillance and social media footage captured Hunt standing over at least one victim, repeating "You still talking? You still talking?" The videos spread fast. The public outrage spread faster. Police made the arrest Thursday evening.
But this isn't a story about good police work catching a bad guy. This is a story about a system that handed him back to the public over and over again until the inevitable happened.
Hunt's criminal history reads like a revolving door stress test. From December 2012 to June 2019, he racked up multiple assault arrests. In June 2019, he pled guilty to discharging a weapon and received a sentence of 20 to 36 months in prison. He was out by June 2020. Prior charges include breaking and entering, property damage, probation violation, and carrying a concealed weapon.
By August 2024, he was arrested again. His sentence: 90 days in jail — credited as time served. He walked.
Then came December 2025. Another incident. Another conviction — this one landing in March 2026. The sentence: 89 days. Not served. Credited.
So by July 2026, when women started getting attacked near East Boulevard, Di Quan Schafar Hunt had been cycling through Mecklenburg County's justice system for over a decade with a record that screamed escalation at every turn. And the system's answer, every single time, was a shorter leash that nobody bothered to hold.
Hunt's arrest history across those 34 months in Mecklenburg County alone paints a picture that no algorithm or risk assessment tool should have missed. Nine arrests isn't a pattern — it's a flashing neon sign. A guilty plea on a weapons charge followed by early release followed by more arrests followed by time-served credits isn't justice.
The women in those videos didn't need a criminal justice reform seminar. They needed a system that takes a man with nine arrests in under three years and keeps him somewhere he can't reach them.
Every one of those nine bookings had a judge. Every one had a file. Every one had a record showing escalation from property crimes to weapons charges to assault. And every one ended with Hunt walking back out.
Charlotte isn't unique. This is happening in cities across the country where "smart on crime" replaced "tough on crime" and the scoreboard flipped from tracking public safety to tracking incarceration reduction. The metric changed. The victims didn't.