Sayed Mohassib

Introduction

Sayed Mohassib, 27, a one-time NYPD recruit working as a New York City Department of Education school aide, was charged with second-degree murder on Saturday, November 7, 2026, in the death of Katie Suarez, a 28-year-old bank teller stabbed while jogging along Brooklyn’s Shore Parkway Greenway promenade on October 30 . Police sources told the New York Post that Mohassib admitted to the slashing but said he remembers nothing of the attack, claiming he woke from a blackout covered in blood with the murder weapon in his possession . He was identified after surveillance video captured him leaving the park around the time Suarez was attacked, and officers tracked him to his home . The charge was filed a week after Suarez — kept on life support so her organs could be donated — died of her wounds . The admissions described in this page come from unnamed police sources quoted in press coverage; no plea appears in that coverage and no defense statement has been reported .

Background Information

Mohassib’s brief law-enforcement career ended before it began, according to the police sources who spoke to the Post: he left the NYPD after one month to enlist in the Marines, was discharged by the Marines due to what the sources called apparent mental instability, attempted to rejoin the NYPD and was denied, and then joined the Department of Education . The Daily News, citing police sources with knowledge of the case, reported that he was discharged from the Marines for psychological reasons and could not rejoin the NYPD because of that discharge . At the time of the attack he was working as a school aide at P.S. 200 — the Post places the school in Bensonhurst, the Daily News in Bath Beach, just a few blocks from the waterfront where Suarez was stabbed . He and Suarez attended Brooklyn College at the same time, though it is not clear whether the two ever knew each other .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged with second-degree murder. Mohassib, 27, stands accused — per unnamed police sources quoted by the New York Post and Daily News — of stabbing Katie Suarez to death as she jogged along the Shore Parkway Greenway in Bath Beach on the night of October 30, 2026, and of admitting the killing while telling investigators his memory of it was erased by a blackout. He was placed at the scene by surveillance video, tracked to his home, and charged on Saturday, November 7, one week after Suarez died. Nothing has been tested in court: no plea appears in the coverage, and no attorney for Mohassib has been quoted.

Suarez, a TD Bank teller, had gotten off work at the Caesar’s Bay Shopping Center branch in Gravesend on the evening of October 30 and met her mother in front of a nearby Wendy’s around 6:50 p.m. — a family ritual ahead of their regular after-work run . She changed into running clothes, passed her work uniform to her mother, and set off along the Shore Parkway Greenway promenade; her father, an MTA bus driver, was running late, and she left before he arrived . Around 8:15 p.m., near Bay 17th Street and Shore Parkway by the Belt Parkway, she was stabbed multiple times in the neck . She had sent a final message saying she was five minutes from the meeting point; when she failed to appear, her parents split up to search, and her father found her less than a mile away under a tree, bleeding from two neck wounds, and flagged a passing cyclist to call 911 .

Suarez was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where she was pronounced brain dead and kept on life support so her organs could be harvested and donated . She died on Monday, November 2, three days after the attack . Police characterized the killing as bearing all the markings of a random attack: she was not robbed or sexually assaulted, and her family said she had no known enemies or boyfriends . The NYPD offered a $10,000 reward and scoured the waterfront with K9 and aviation units, drones, and scuba divers . The break came from surveillance video placing Mohassib leaving the park around the time of the attack; after officers tracked him to his home, sources say he admitted the slashing but claimed amnesia — he told investigators he woke up from a blackout covered in blood with the weapon still in his possession . Investigators believe he threw the knife in the garbage, and that it traveled from a Staten Island landfill to a New Jersey dump, where the search for it continued as the charge was announced . The Daily News reported that Department of Education officials confirmed Mohassib’s employment and the second-degree murder charge .

Public Reaction and Consequences

Suarez’s mother, Yasira Suarez, became the case’s public voice as the family waited out the week before the arrest. Outside their Brooklyn home, she said her daughter “just wanted to run” and demanded the killer surrender: “You took an angel” . “Please, just turn yourself in,” she said. “You did this once, don’t let it happen again… Because what you did to this person, you took away a little angel” . She described the family’s closeness — “mom and dad were always there for her” — and the particular weight on her husband, the father who found their daughter: “It’s even harder for him, because he was the one who found her” . Neighbors in Bath Beach remembered Suarez as “family oriented” and “a very soft spoken girl, very nice,” a “very professional, very kind” teller at the local branch; one local, Anna Dece, said simply, “It’s too much right now. It’s a mad world” . No public statement from Mohassib, his family, or any attorney appears in the coverage of the charge .

Current Status

Mohassib was charged with second-degree murder on Saturday, November 7, 2026, per police sources; the Department of Education confirmed the charge to the Daily News . He was arrested after officers tracked him to his home via the surveillance video, and remains in custody as of the charge per the arrest reported in that coverage; no arraignment date, bail status, or court appearance has been reported yet . The charge rests on a charging instrument and police-source accounts that remain untested — he is presumed innocent, no plea has been entered, and the claimed blackout is so far an account to investigators, not evidence aired in court . The hunt for the murder weapon in a New Jersey dump was still underway, and the police investigation remains open .

Impact on Their Career/Life

The charge ends, in one stroke, the employment path the sources trace — NYPD recruit, Marine discharge, Department of Education school aide at P.S. 200, the school sitting blocks from the promenade where Suarez was killed . At 27, his name is now attached to one of the year’s most-covered New York City killings. For Suarez’s family, the week between her death and the charge closed with an arrest their mother had publicly begged for — but the account of a blackout, if credited, would make the killing random in a way that offers no answer to why their daughter was the one attacked . Suarez — born in El Salvador, a 2020 Brooklyn College graduate who had banked at TD since 2021 and was training for a November 14 race — is remembered in the coverage for the organ donations her final week made possible .

Sources

New York Post, “Ex-NYPD maniac admitted to slashing NYC jogger Katie Suarez: police,” November 7, 2026 — source
New York Daily News, “NYPD arrests NYC substitute school aide in murder of Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez,” November 7, 2026 — source
New York Post, “Stabbed NYC jogger has died: family,” November 3, 2026 — source
New York Post, “NYC jogger Katie Suarez declared brain dead in random Brooklyn stabbing remembered,” October 31, 2026 — source
@nypost on X, “Ex-NYPD maniac admitted to slashing NYC jogger Katie Suarez…,” November 7, 2026 — source