School aide who briefly served as NYPD officer arrested in fatal stabbing of Brooklyn jogger

A public school employee who briefly served as an NYPD officer has been charged with second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a 28-year-old female jogger in Brooklyn last week, an apparently random attack.

Sayed Mohassib, 27, was arrested Saturday in the death of Katie Suarez, who was attacked Oct. 30 on the Belt Parkway bike path. Mohassib told investigators he had been walking along the path with a knife, police said.

He told investigators he blacked out and was covered in blood when he regained awareness, according to law enforcement sources.

Suarez was stabbed at least two times in the neck and was rushed to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries days later.

Detectives used surveillance footage from the area to help identify Mohassib as a suspect. Security cameras also captured him dumping bags of garbage near his home the night of the killing. A search was underway at a sanitation facility for any evidence that may have been discarded.

Mohassib spent about a month as an NYPD rookie in the Bronx beginning in October 2022 before asking to be reassigned to the military on extended leave. He was removed from military service because of mental health…

Original source: https://www.nbcnews.com/health