New York City police have charged a Department of Education teacher's aide with second-degree murder in the Oct. 30 stabbing of Katie Suarez, 28, while she was jogging in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, ABC7 New York reported Saturday¹. PIX11 reported that a person was in custody in the case².

ABC7 New York identified the suspect as Sayed Mohassib, 27, and said police arrested him at his New York City home after detectives developed evidence they say placed him at the scene¹. The station said he has been charged with second-degree murder¹. PIX11 did not name the person in custody on the page reviewed².

Both stations placed the attack on the Shore Parkway Greenway^1,2. ABC7 New York said it happened while Suarez was jogging near the Belt Parkway on Oct. 30¹. PIX11 said she was stabbed twice in the neck that day².

ABC7 New York said Suarez's father found her after she failed to arrive at a family gathering and stopped responding to calls, and that she later died of her injuries¹. PIX11 said her family later took her off life support and arranged organ donation².

Citing police, ABC7 New York said the only known connection between Mohassib and Suarez was that both attended Brooklyn College¹. The station, citing police, said he briefly worked for the NYPD in 2022 before resigning to join the Marines, was later discharged, sought to return to the department, was referred to Bellevue Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and did not rejoin, and most recently worked as a teacher's aide at P.S. 200 in Bensonhurst¹.

ABC7 New York, citing information obtained by the station, said Mohassib made statements linking himself to the killing, that police say he told detectives he did not remember the murder but recalled being covered in blood, and that they allege he discarded the knife, later traced to a Staten Island landfill¹.

The city's Department of Education said student safety was its top priority, that it had suspended the individual and would move to terminate employment pending the outcome of the arrest, and that it was supporting the NYPD investigation, ABC7 New York reported¹.

A New York Times headline also reported a murder charge; that article's text was not used here³. A motive has not been established in the accounts that were read, and it was not independently confirmed whether the suspect has entered a plea^1,2.