School aide charged with murder in Brooklyn jogger killing

As of 7:57 p.m. ET, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026

A New York City public school aide has been charged with second-degree murder in the Oct. 30 stabbing death of Katie Suarez, a 28-year-old woman attacked while jogging on Brooklyn's Shore Parkway Greenway, police and prosecutors said.

Sayed Mohassib, 27, of Bath Beach, was arrested Saturday, Nov. 7, and arraigned that night in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, CBS New York and NBC News. He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail, CBS New York reported. He is expected back in court Tuesday, Nov. 10.

What the complaint alleges

Police say Suarez was stabbed in the neck while running along the path near the Belt Parkway on the evening of Oct. 30. Her father found her after she failed to arrive at a planned family meeting, and she died of her injuries days later, ABC7 New York and NBC News reported. The city medical examiner ruled the cause of death a stab wound to the neck, News 12 Brooklyn reported, citing court records.

According to the criminal complaint, as reported by News 12 and CBS New York, surveillance video shows Mohassib walking toward the running path before the attack and running from the area afterward. Prosecutors allege further video shows him returning home and, about 15 minutes later, throwing items into a garbage chute.

The complaint says Mohassib told investigators he went to the path with a knife because he believed "people were going to come and kill his family." He denied stabbing anyone, according to the complaint, and said he "sat down on a bench and became covered in blood," CBS New York reported. Prosecutors say he acknowledged disposing of bloody clothing and the knife, and that a stain in his apartment tested presumptively positive for blood. Police later recovered a knife from a Staten Island landfill, ABC7 New York reported.

Police have said the motive is unclear and believe the attack may have been random, ABC7 reported. The only known connection between the two is that both attended Brooklyn College, according to police.

School employment questioned

Mohassib worked as a school aide at P.S. 200 in Brooklyn, police sources told CBS New York. The Department of Education said it has suspended him and "will move to terminate employment pending the outcome of the conviction."

He served about a month with the NYPD in 2022, police sources said, and the Marine Corps confirmed to CBS New York that he was discharged after serving less than a month. Local elected officials, including State Sens. Stephen Chan and Andrew Gounardes, have called for answers on how he was hired, News 12 and NBC New York reported.

Mohassib is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.