Police arrested Sayed Mohassib, 27, on Saturday and charged him with second-degree murder in the death of Katie Suarez, a 28-year-old jogger attacked along the Belt Parkway bike path in the Bath Beach section of Brooklyn on Oct. 30, according to NBC News.

Suarez was stabbed at least twice in the neck and was rushed to a hospital, where she died from her injuries days later. She had gone out for a run and was supposed to meet her parents afterward; when she never arrived, her father went searching for her and found her.

Mohassib was ordered held without bail at his arraignment Saturday night. The criminal complaint also charges him with tampering with physical evidence and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

The suspect's background is what sets this case apart for true-crime readers.

According to NBC News, Mohassib spent about a month as an NYPD rookie in the Bronx beginning in October 2022 before requesting reassignment to the military on extended leave, and he was removed from military service because of mental health issues. He formally resigned from the department on Dec.

16, 2022, while still on military assignment, and his police-issued firearm was removed and never returned.

In January 2023, the department denied his request to be reinstated; a law enforcement source told NBC News he was taken to Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric ward after exhibiting strange behavior when he tried to get his job back in person. Until his arrest, he worked as a paraprofessional at P.S.

200, an elementary school in Brooklyn, and continued reporting to work among children after the stabbing, law enforcement officials said.

Detectives used security video from the area to identify Mohassib as a suspect, and court documents say the footage shows him near the jogging path and later running away from the crime scene.

According to NBC News, investigators say Mohassib admitted walking the path with a knife, going to and from the Verrazano Bridge, but insisted he did not stab anyone.

The complaint states he told investigators he blacked out and was covered in blood when he regained awareness while seated on a bench, and that he believed he had to go to the path or else 'people were going to come and kill his family.'

Per the complaint, he admitted throwing away his bloody clothes and the knife, and security cameras captured him dumping bags of garbage in his underwear about 15 minutes after returning home. Police identified a bloodstain in his apartment, which he said he tried to clean.

A search was underway Sunday at a sanitation facility for discarded evidence.

Police believe the attack was random, and Mohassib remains held without bail as the case moves toward trial.

The Education Department said in a statement that it has suspended him and will move to terminate his employment pending the outcome of the conviction, and it was not immediately clear whether his psychiatric history was reviewed before he was hired — a question NBC News flags for school-safety scrutiny.

Suarez's mother, Yasira Suarez, said her daughter fought for her life in the hospital for several days before dying of her injuries.

Separately, in Albany, Georgia, the New York Post reports that 22-year-old Detravion Parke and three teenagers — two 15-year-olds and 16-year-old Adarious Wallace — were charged with murder in the shooting death of Austin Payne, 15, whom his mother found inside an abandoned home after tracking his cellphone on Nov.

1. Albany police are asking anyone with information to call 229-431-2100.