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Ex-police officer Sayed Mohassib charged with murdering NYC jogger
Fox News • • nation
Key Points:
- Sayed Mohassib, a former NYPD officer, has been charged with second-degree murder, physical evidence tampering, and criminal possession of a weapon in the stabbing death of Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez on October 30.
- Suarez, 28, was stabbed in the neck while jogging along the Shore Parkway Greenway and died from her injuries at the hospital; she had been on the phone with her parents moments before the attack.
- Mohassib, who showed little emotion when arrested, claimed he woke up covered in blood with no memory of the incident and admitted to disposing of the knife in the garbage.
- Mohassib briefly served with the NYPD before joining the Marines, where he was deemed unfit for service, and was recently employed as a public school aide; the Department of Education has suspended him pending the outcome of the case.
- Police have not disclosed a motive or any known relationship between Mohassib and Suarez, and the investigation is ongoing.
