Sick Tattoos, Raised in Mosques - Man Accused of Murdering NYC Jogger Was Reported Multiple Times, but Left in Place Over Racism Fears
Former colleagues of the Muslim man accused of fatally stabbing Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez have alleged that they’d repeatedly raised concerns about his behavior, only for their concerns to be ignored.
The man, 27-year-old Sayed Mohassib, was indicted by a Brooklyn grand jury on Tuesday for the recent stabbing death of Suarez.
“Authorities allege Mohassib stabbed [Suarez] on Oct. 30 while she was running near Shore Parkway and Bay 17th Street in Brooklyn,” according to New York City station WABC-TV.
At the time of his arrest on Nov. 7, he was employed as a teacher’s aide at New York City Public School 200, known as The Benson School.
“The Department of Education suspended him following his arrest and officially terminated his employment Monday,” WABC reported.
According to the New York Post, “adults” at the school issued warnings about Mohassib’s behavior as early as September and into October.
“They flagged his blank stares, the gun charm he wore around his neck and disturbing social-media posts of his chest tattoo naming, among other figures, Allah and the antichrist,” the New York-based outlet reported.
But each time they complained, school administrators and union officials reportedly told them to stop with their allegedly “racist” rhetoric.
Here is another photo of Sayed Mohassib who is accused of murdering Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez, this time working with kids in NYC Schools at P.S.200. https://t.co/xJS5OIXCdu
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His erratic behavior extends even further back to 2022, the year he left the state Department of Education to join the New York Police Department, only to leave after only six weeks to enlist in the Marines.
Mohassib was then “quickly discharged” from the Marines for being “psychologically unfit,” according to the New York Post.
He subsequently tried to reenlist in the NYPD, but was rejected and reportedly sent to a hospital for a psych evaluation, the Post reported. Afterward, the state DOE rehired him, and he remained employed there until the recent stabbing incident.
According to Mohassib’s mother, he’s a practicing Muslim.
“He’s a black belt, he goes to Boy Scouts all his life, goes to the mosque all his life, he goes to Brooklyn College, the team basketball, excellent boy,” his mother, Fatma Mohassib, told WABC-TV in an interview.
According to additional reporting from the New York Post, Mohassib had acknowledged to his PS 200 colleagues that he was on certain medications.
Moreover, he was involved in an additional incident that occurred in 2024 “where cops responded to his Bensonhurst home on reports that he threatened to ‘chop up’ his family,” the New York paper reported.
Suarez’ murder and Mohassib’s employment history have attracted the attention of local officials like New York City Councilman Frank Morano, who demanded on social media that lawmakers pursue legislation to “strengthen hiring” regulations.
The man charged with murdering Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez was working as a NYC public school teacher’s aide, despite failing psychological evaluations for the military and NYPD. How did the DOE hire him? I’m demanding answers & pursuing legislation to strengthen hiring.
— Councilman Frank Morano (@CMFrankMorano) November 9, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has vowed that there’ll be “a full review of the entire process of background and hiring at large.”
According to Ynet, Suarez’s life came to an abrupt, early end after she went for a run on Oct. 30 to train for a race she’d planned to run with her mother.
“After finishing work, she met her mother at a nearby Wendy’s, changed into running clothes and headed out,” the outlet reported. “At 7:56 p.m., her father, a bus driver, spoke to her by phone, and she told him she was about half a mile away. When she failed to arrive, her parents went looking for her.”
Suarez’s father found her 20 minutes later unconscious beneath a tree, with stab marks on her neck and a blood trail leading away from her body.
According to court documents reviewed by WABC-TV, Mohassib told detectives that he went out that afternoon with a knife in his pocket out of fear that people were going to kill his family.
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