Ex-NYPD, ex-Marine maniac arrested in stabbing murder of NYC jogger Katie Suarez

A maniac ex-cop was arrested Saturday in the brutal murder of a young woman jogging along a Brooklyn footpath last week — and he claimed he woke up covered in blood with no memory of the heartless stabbing, police sources told The Post.

Sayed Mohassib, 27 — who currently works as an elementary school educator in Brooklyn despite being discharged from the Marines for psychological reasons — was charged with second-degree murder in the Oct. 30 slaying of Katie Suarez, police sources said.

Officers tracked him down to his Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, home after picking him up on video leaving the Shore Parkway Greenway around the time Suarez was attacked, the sources said.

Mohassib works as a paraprofessional at PS 200, which is just three blocks from the waterfront promenade overlooking Gravesend Bay.

He told cops during his grilling at the 62nd Precinct stationhouse Saturday that he woke up from a blackout covered in blood and with the murder weapon.

He said he ditched the knife in the garbage, and cops believe the trash was taken to a Staten Island landfill before ending up at a New Jersey dump.

Mohassib returned last week to work at the elementary school, where colleagues noticed him speaking incoherently and acting erratically. They reported the concerning behavior to police, though their reports weren’t what ultimately led to his arrest, sources said.

He had worked as a public school para before joining the NYPD in 2022, but was on the police force for only a month before leaving to enlist in the Marines.

The Marines discharged him after deeming him psychologically unfit, and his attempts to rejoin the NYPD were denied, the sources said.

That’s when he returned to the Department of Education.

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The alleged killer and Suarez both went to Brooklyn College at the same time, but it’s not clear if they knew one another.

Detectives have not determined a motive in the attack.

Earlier in the week, investigators collected forensic evidence, including clippings from the victim’s fingernails, to determine if she struggled with her attacker, another source told The Post.

“You can say it wasn’t a robbery because she’s left with her jewelry and her phone,” the source said. “But you can’t say conclusively it was not a sexual assault.”

Detectives also swabbed for touch DNA on the 28-year-old bank teller’s phone and elsewhere, but DNA processing will take time, the source said.

Suarez was ambushed and stabbed in the neck around 8:15 p.m. after leaving her job at TD Bank and going for a jog on the waterfront promenade alongside the Belt Parkway near Bay 17th Street, not far from her Gravesend home, officials said.

Her father found her body crumpled on the path after she failed to meet her parents after her run — and she sent a final message saying she was just five minutes away from their agreed-upon meeting point.

She was rushed to the hospital, where she was pronounced brain dead but was kept on life support so that her organs could be harvested and donated.

Suarez was training for a Nov. 14 race when she was attacked, her mother said.

“She didn’t deserve this,” Yasira Suarez told The Post earlier this week. “Katie was very happy, she was a person that wouldn’t mess with anyone.

“She was someone everyone would say left a good impression in the hearts of everybody she met. She was the type of person that thought about everyone before herself.”

Additional reporting by Tina Moore.