Former NYPD Officer and Teacher’s Aide Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of New York City Jogger

A teacher’s aide who briefly worked as a New York City police officer has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of a jogger, according to court documents.

Sayed Mohassib was arrested Saturday, more than a week after Katie Suarez was stabbed in the neck while jogging in Brooklyn.

He was working for the New York City Department of Education, the department confirmed Sunday. The department has suspended Mohassib and will move to terminate his employment pending the outcome of the case, it said in a statement to CNN.

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Suarez was on a run on the Shore Parkway Greenway, along the waterfront in Brooklyn, on the night of October 30, CNN affiliate WABC reported.

She did not return from her run and did not answer her phone. She was found on a running path “bleeding heavily from the neck” and was taken to a hospital, where she died from her injuries, according to a criminal complaint.

Mohassib is seen on surveillance video walking to the area of the running path before the incident and is later seen in surveillance video running from the area after the stabbing, the complaint alleges.

Video also captures him returning to his home and “emerging fifteen minutes later wearing only underwear and subsequently throwing items into a garbage chute,” the charging document states.

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