Mamdani vows ‘full review’ into how accused jogger-killer deemed too unstable for Marines, NYPD landed job at NYC public school
City officials have launched “a full review’’ into how an unhinged ex-cop charged with fatally stabbing a jogger had been working in a local public school — after being deemed too mentally unfit for the Marines and NYPD, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday. Sayed Mohassib, 27, was working as a teacher’s aide at PS 200 in Brooklyn — three blocks from the waterfront promenade in Gravesend where he allegedly randomly killed runner Katie Suarez , 28 — before being busted in the Oct. 30 slaying. The suspect had already been discharged from the Marines in 2022 for being psychologically unfit and then tried to return to the Police Department, where he had served for about six weeks before leaving to go into the armed force. Sayed Mohassib leaves the 62nd precinct after being charged with murder on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026. William Farrington for NY Post 28-year-old Katie Suarez was stabbed to death on October 30. Katie Suarez / Linkedin But the NYPD refused to take him back, citing erratic behavior, sources said. Yet all that still didn’t stop Mohassib from being listed as a paraprofessional for the DOE starting in 2024 — the same year cops were called to
