Former Marine Ex-cop Charged in NYC Jogger’s Fatal Stabbing

WHO:

CBS News - Sayed Mohassib was 27 years old and lived in Bath Beach, Brooklyn.

CBS News - Mohassib worked as a teacher’s aide at Public School 200 and had been employed there during the week of the arrest.

CBS News - Mohassib served in NYPD field training in the Bronx from October to November 2022.

CBS News - Police sources said Mohassib and Katie Suarez attended Brooklyn College at the same time; authorities had no evidence they knew each other.

CBS News - New York City Councilmember Kayla Santosuosso, State Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember-elect Chris McCreight said Mohassib had no criminal record and had been discharged from the military on psychiatric grounds.

NY Post - Sayed Mohassib is described as a former NYPD officer, former Marine, and current elementary school educator.

ABC News - Police arrested a man in connection with the killing of Katie Suarez.

Gothamist - The NYPD said it charged Sayed Mohassib with murder.

WHAT:

CBS News - Mohassib was also charged with tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon.

CBS News - The Department of Education said it suspended Mohassib and would move to terminate his employment pending the outcome of the conviction.

CBS News - Mohassib’s father found Suarez injured; she was taken to a hospital and died from her injuries.

CBS News - Suarez’s mother, Yasira Suarez, urged the suspect to turn himself in, saying, “you took an angel.”

Fox News - Police said Katie Suarez was stabbed in the neck several times in an unprovoked attack.

Fox News - Mohassib told police he woke up covered in blood with no memory of the attack and said he threw the knife in the garbage.

NBC News - The school employee was charged with second-degree murder.

NBC News - The stabbing was described as an apparently random attack.

NY Post - Mohassib was charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of jogger Katie Suarez.

NY Post - Police sources said video tied Mohassib to the park, and that he admitted to slashing Suarez.

NY Post - Resurfaced photos showed Mohassib appearing emotionless.

ABC News - Police said a man was arrested in connection with Suarez’s murder.

Gothamist - The NYPD said Sayed Mohassib was charged with murder.

WHERE:

CBS News - Suarez was found injured along the Shore Parkway greenway.

NY Post - Suarez was killed on a Brooklyn footpath.

ABC News - Suarez was stabbed while jogging in Brooklyn.

Gothamist - The case involved a Brooklyn jogger; the article identifies the location as Bath Beach.

HOW:

CBS News - Police sources said Mohassib claimed he “blacked out” and did not remember hurting anyone.

Fox News - Mohassib was escorted from a Brooklyn police precinct in handcuffs wearing a red Van Dutch jacket, black top, and jeans.

NBC News - The victim was 28 years old.

NY Post - Police sources said video showed Mohassib leaving the park around the time of the killing and linked him to the park.

ABC News - Suarez was stabbed while jogging.

(UPDATED November 8, 2026 03:59 UTC)

A Brooklyn jogger, Katie Suarez, was fatally stabbed in an apparently random attack. Police charged Sayed Mohassib, an elementary school educator and former Marine, with second-degree murder. Investigators say video linked Mohassib to the park; he reportedly told police he had no memory of the attack.

(UPDATED November 8, 2026 01:01 UTC)

(UPDATED November 7, 2026 21:56 UTC)

A school employee has been charged with second-degree murder in Katie Suarez’s fatal stabbing. The 28-year-old jogger was attacked on a Brooklyn footpath in an apparently random assault. Police say video linked Sayed Mohassib to the park, and he admitted slashing Suarez.

(UPDATED November 7, 2026 20:57 UTC)

Police charged Sayed Mohassib with murder in the fatal stabbing of jogger Katie Suarez. Suarez was attacked while jogging along a Brooklyn footpath in Bath Beach. Police sources say video linked Mohassib to the park, and he admitted slashing Suarez.