He allegedly knifed a young woman and left her for dead on a Brooklyn waterfront path, then went right back to school to work with little kids.
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He → knife → kids
Sayed Mohassib, a 27-year-old school teacher’s aide and former NYPD officer, was back among children within days of the October 30 stabbing of bank teller Katie Suarez, according to reports.
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Mohassib → accord → reports
The elementary school where he worked sits just blocks from the waterfront promenade where 28-year-old Suarez was killed.
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Suarez → work → promenade
Staffers knew something was off, The New York Post reported.
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Post → know → ?
Coworkers told cops the aide was babbling and behaving strangely, sources told the Post, though those tips didn’t crack the case.
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tips → tell → case
Kids noticed, too.
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Kids → notice → ?
Two youngsters said they spotted him muttering to himself and looking on edge.
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Mohassib was arrested Saturday and ordered held without bail on charges of second-degree murder, evidence tampering and weapons possession.
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Mohassib → arrest → murder
Education officials suspended him and vowed to move to fire him, pending the outcome of the case.
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officials → suspend → case
Suarez had just finished her shift at TD Bank and was running beside the Belt Parkway near Bay 17th Street around 8 p.m. when she was stabbed at least twice in the neck.
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she → finish → neck
She had just told her parents she was minutes from their meet-up spot.
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she → tell → spot
When she never showed, her father went searching and found her bleeding on the path.
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her → show → path
After being rushed to the hospital, she was declared brain dead and died after being taken off life support, her family said.
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family → rush → support
Five people received her organs, sources said.
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sources → receive → organs
She was running after she had started training for the New York City marathon.
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she → run → marathon
Surveillance video helped detectives identify the suspect, authorities said.
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authorities → help → suspect
Cameras allegedly caught him near the path and later fleeing the area.
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Cameras → catch → area
Roughly 15 minutes after he got home, he was on camera again, hauling out bags of trash, according to the criminal complaint.
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he → get → complaint
Investigators were picking through a sanitation facility Sunday in the hunt for evidence.
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Mohassib told detectives he blacked out and came to on a bench, covered in blood, according to sources and court papers.
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He allegedly admitted to prowling the path with a knife, walking to the Verrazzano Bridge and back, because he believed “people were going to come and kill his family.”
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people → admit → family
But he insisted he never stabbed anyone.
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he → insist → anyone
He also allegedly confessed to dumping the blade and his bloody clothes.
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Cops found a bloodstain in his apartment that he said he tried to scrub away.
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he → find → that
The red flags were flying long before the incident.
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Mohassib lasted only about four to six weeks as an NYPD rookie in 2022 before leaving for the military, which reportedly booted him over mental health issues.
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When he tried to get his badge back, he turned up disheveled and erratic and was carted off to Bellevue.
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he → try → Bellevue
The NYPD said no, and he landed back at the Department of Education.
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Then, in September 2024, his own mother and sister told cops he had threatened to “chop them up,” sources said.
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sources → tell → them
He was taken to Coney Island Hospital.
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Police believe the attack was random.
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Suarez and Mohassib attended Brooklyn College at the same time, but there’s no known link between them.
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Suarez → attend → them
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