Ex-NYPD officer charged with murder of Brooklyn jogger

Summarised from 5 outlets · 6 reports · Updated 7 Nov, 23:57 · Archive

Sayed Mohassib, 27, has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Katie Suarez, 28, on a Brooklyn running path on 30 October.

Katie Suarez, 28, was fatally stabbed in the neck while jogging along the Shore Parkway Greenway near Bay 17th Street and Shore Parkway in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, around 8pm on 30 October. She was training for the New York City Marathon. Her father found her unconscious beneath a tree along the path around 8:16pm after she failed to arrive at their arranged meeting point.

Sayed Mohassib, 27, was charged with second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon on Saturday 7 November. He was working as an elementary school aide at PS 200 in Bensonhurst at the time of the killing.

Police tracked Mohassib to his home after surveillance video showed him leaving the park around the time Suarez was attacked. According to police sources, Mohassib told investigators he had no memory of the attack but woke up covered in blood with the murder weapon in his possession. He said he disposed of the knife in the garbage, which was taken to a Staten Island landfill before ending up at a New Jersey dump.

Mohassib worked for the NYPD for one month before leaving to join the Marines, who discharged him due to apparent mental instability. He later attempted to rejoin the NYPD but was denied, and instead joined the Department of Education. Both Mohassib and Suarez attended Brooklyn College, though police have not confirmed whether they knew each other.

Suarez was a TD Bank teller. She had spoken to her father around 7:56pm on the evening of her death, telling him she was about half a mile away from their meeting point.

How it is being reported

• Ex-police officer accused of stabbing NYC jogger to death appears emotionless in new photosSayed Mohassib was seen led away in handcuffs after being charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez.Fox News · 8 Nov, 00:00
• Ex-NYPD cop arrested for fatal slashing of Brooklyn joggerKatie Suarez, 28, was discovered fatally injured on running path by her fatherIndependent World · 7 Nov, 23:29
• NYPD arrests suspect in stabbing death of Brooklyn joggerA suspect is facing murder charges in the stabbing death of a 28-year-old woman last week while she was jogging in Brooklyn.CBS News · 7 Nov, 22:37
• Troubled ex-NYPD cop, former Marine accused in NYC jogger Katie Suarez’s fatal stabbing appears emotionless in resurfaced photosSayed Mohassib – the ex-cop and current elementary school educator arrested in the slaying of a young jogger on a Brooklyn footpath – appeared straight-faced and unemotional in pictures taken years before the shocking killing that The Post has obtained. Mohassib stared down the camera in his 2022 NYPD headshot, taken for the brief one-month...New York Post · 7 Nov, 19:46
• Former NYPD officer is arrested for murdering women jogging on New York pathKatie Suarez, 28, was stabbed in the neck around 8pm on October 30 near Bay 17th Street and Shore Parkway in Bath Beach, New York.Daily Mail · 7 Nov, 17:30
• Ex-NYPD maniac admitted to slashing NYC jogger Katie Suarez after video caught him leaving park around same time: police sourcesThe ex-NYPD officer was charged in jogger Katie Suarez’s Brooklyn killing after video tied him to the park, police sources say; read more.New York Post · 7 Nov, 16:53

In this story: Sayed Mohassib · Katie Suarez · Brooklyn · New York Police Department · Department of Education · Brooklyn College · TD Bank

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