Fox News Channel co-host Kilmeade apologizes for remark about homeless people

Fox News co-host Brian Kilmeade apologized Sunday for suggesting homeless people who reject government assistance should be euthanized. 

Kilmeade, a co-host of the cable news network's morning show "Fox and Friends," made the comment Wednesday in a discussion about the recent, fatal stabbing of a young female Ukrainian immigrant on a Charlotte, North Carolina, commuter train, according to The Hill newspaper.

The man charged in the killing has a lengthy criminal record and a history of mental illness, but it appears unclear about whether he was homeless.

The discussion on the show also came amid the larger concern of President Trump and others about the major homeless problem in U.S. cities.  

“In the morning, we were discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina and how to stop these kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalizing or jailing such people so they cannot attack again,” Kilmeade, who also has a radio show, said Sunday. “Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I apologize for that extremely callous remark.”