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School aide who briefly served as NYPD officer arrested in fatal stabbing of Brooklyn jogger
NBC News • • general
Key Points:
- Sayed Mohassib, a former NYPD officer and current public school paraprofessional, has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 28-year-old jogger Katie Suarez on Brooklyn’s Belt Parkway bike path.
- Mohassib reportedly blacked out during the attack and was found covered in blood; surveillance footage helped identify him, including footage of him discarding garbage near his home.
- Mohassib served briefly as an NYPD rookie before resigning in late 2022, and was removed from military service due to mental health issues; he also exhibited threatening behavior toward family members recently.
- Despite the stabbing, Mohassib continued working at P.S. 200 in Brooklyn, prompting the Department of Education to suspend and move to terminate his employment pending conviction.
- Police consider the attack random; Suarez was found by her father after failing to meet her parents post-run and died days later in the hospital from neck stab wounds.
