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.
\n\nSayed 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.
\n\nHe told investigators he blacked out and was covered in blood when he regained awareness, according to law enforcement sources.
\n\nSuarez was stabbed at least two times in the neck and was rushed to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries days later.
\n\nDetectives 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.
\n\nMohassib spent about a month with the NYPD beginning in October 2022 before asking to be reassigned to the military, where he was removed because of mental health issues, according to a law enforcement source familiar with…
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