Former NYPD Officer Charged in Katie Suarez Killing

Sayed Mohassib, a 27-year-old city Department of Education employee and former New York Police Department officer, was arrested Saturday and charged in the fatal stabbing of Katie Suarez, 28, who was attacked while jogging in Brooklyn on October 30, police said. The charges include second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon, according to police accounts reported in the material. An arrest and charges do not establish guilt.

Suarez was stabbed in the neck on the Shore Parkway Greenway near Bay 17th Street in Bath Beach. Police said the attack occurred during her usual evening run. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Suarez spoke by phone with her father at 7:56 p.m. and said she was about half a mile away. When she did not arrive at the family’s planned meeting place, her father went to look for her and found her unconscious beneath a tree at about 8:16 p.m.

Suarez was taken to hospital in critical condition and died from her injuries, according to police accounts. Reports differ in their description of her final medical course: some say she died several days later, while another says she was declared brain dead and remained on...