US teacher returned to school 'like nothing happened' after 'stabbing jogger'

US teacher returned to school 'like nothing happened' after 'stabbing jogger' Sayed Mohassib is accused of murdering 28-year-old jogger Katie Suarez on a New York City path, and sources claim he returned to teaching after the incident A ‘teacher’ accused of stabbing a runner to death in a random attack allegedly returned to class “like nothing happened”. Sayed Mohassib is accused of murdering 28-year-old jogger Katie Suarez on a New York City path on October 30. Police sources believe Mr Mohassib then went back to work as normal the following Monday, teaching young children at a primary school in Brooklyn until he was arrested last Saturday (November 7). The same sources also say Mohassib reportedly killed a family pet when he was younger. It is just one of a series of mental health episodes to have hit the 27-year-old reported by the New York Post . The title reported Mohassib was a New York City police officer for several weeks in autumn 2022, until he left the NYPD to join the US Marines. However, he was rejected from military service — and refused re-entry with the cops in January 2023 because he appeared “disheveled,” sources added. Reports suggest Mohassib also once killed a family cat or dog, his mother told police previously. He is now in custody. Police allege Mohassib stabbed Katie Suarez twice in the neck as she rang along a Brooklyn promenade. He was found using facial-recognition CCTV cameras that traced footage of Mohassib reportedly entering and leaving the area of the killing to his government ID. NBC News reports Suarez’s father went looking for his daughter after she failed to arrive at a pre-planned meeting with her parents. Tragically, he found her wounded and she died in hospital days later. Mohassib was a paraprofessional teacher, similar to a classroom aide, at the PS 200, aka The Benson School, in Brooklyn. An Education Department spokesperson said in a statement: “The safety of our students is our very top priority. We have suspended this individual and will move to terminate employment pending the outcome of the conviction. We are supporting the NYPD in their investigation however is needed.”