Police seek witnesses after Brooklyn jogger is stabbed

A 28-year-old woman was stabbed in the neck while jogging in Brooklyn’s Bath Beach neighborhood on October 30, prompting a police investigation and a public appeal for witnesses. Police have not announced an arrest or a motive. The woman, identified by police as Katie Suarez, was training for the New York City Marathon, according to reports. She was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn after the attack. Her medical condition was described differently in accounts published after the stabbing: police sources told the New York Post she had been declared brain dead, while ABC7 reported on November 1 that she remained in critical condition. No direct medical statement resolving the difference was reported. On November 1, the NYPD released an image of Suarez and asked anyone who saw her between 7:56 and 8:12 p.m. on October 30 to contact investigators. The requested area was the eastbound bike path along the Belt Parkway between Bay 8th and Bay 17th streets. Reports placed the attack near Bay Parkway and Cropsey Avenue or near Shore Parkway and Canton Avenue. Both locations are in Bath Beach, but the exact point has not been established in the accounts. The stabbing was reported...