Ex-NYPD Officer Charged in Brooklyn Jogger's Fatal Stabbing
The Facts
- Sayed Mohassib, 27, was arrested Saturday and charged with second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon in the Oct. 30 stabbing of Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez, 28, who died days later.
- A judge ordered Mohassib held without bail at his Brooklyn arraignment Saturday night, with his next court date set for Nov. 10. Prosecutors said Suarez's blood was found splattered on the walls of his Bensonhurst apartment.
- Mohassib told investigators he had been walking along the path with a knife, then blacked out and woke up covered in blood, police said. Authorities believe he threw the knife in the garbage, and a knife was recovered from a Staten Island landfill.
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The Spin
Right narrative
Red flags were everywhere, from psychiatric hospitalizations and a military discharge for mental unfitness to threats against family, and the city still handed this man a classroom and a paycheck. A screening system that waves through a candidate the NYPD itself rejected and sent for a psychiatric evaluation isn't protecting anybody. Parents now deserve to know who else slipped through.
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Background checks screen for convictions, not crystal balls, and no law allows barring an applicant over a hospital visit or a discharge that never led to a charge. The real failure here is a mental health system that cycles people through emergency rooms and offers no follow-up care. Scapegoating school hiring rules won't make a single classroom safer.
