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Sayed Mohassib – the ex-cop and current elementary school educator arrested in the slaying of a young jogger on a Brooklyn footpath – appeared straight-faced and unemotional in pictures taken years before the shocking killing that The Post has obtained.
Mohassib stared down the camera in his 2022 NYPD headshot, taken for the brief six-week stint he spent on the force before leaving for the Marines — who ultimately deemed him psychologically unfit for service, according to police sources.
In another photograph, Mohassib was pictured standing tall in his Brooklyn College basketball uniform.
Mohassib played on the university’s basketball team during his freshman year, logging a total of nineteen minutes on the court over three games in the 2018-2019 season.
He scored a total of 10 points, snagged five rebounds, had one assist, and three turnovers in those minutes, according to the Brooklyn College Athletics Department.
Mohassib was charged Saturday with second-degree murder for allegedly knifing Katie Suarez, 27, while she ran along the Shore Parkway Greenway on Oct. 30.
News of the Bensonhurst man’s arrest stunned his neighbors, with one woman saying she was “shocked” that the “good boy” could have carried out such a horrific crime.
Mohassib allegedly told police he has no memory of the attack, but woke up from a blackout covered in blood and with the murder weapon in his possession, police sources said.
Suarez had been running along the path and had plans to meet with her family, who found her wounded body when she failed to show up at their meeting spot.
Mohassib returned last week to work at PS 200 in Bensonhurst, where colleagues noticed him speaking incoherently and acting erratically. They reported the concerning behavior to police, though their reports weren’t what ultimately led to his arrest, sources said.
He began working at the school as a paraprofessional after the NYPD declined his request to rejoin the force following his removal from the Marines because he was deemed psychologically unfit for service.
A motive in the killing has not been identified.
The two attended Brooklyn College at the same time, but it’s not clear if they knew one another.
Mohassib lived in Bensonhurst with his family.
“I’m shocked,” neighbor Rosa, 65, told The Post.
“I think he’s a good boy – no conflict with nobody. He smiles, he says hi. His mom is good.”
Additional reporting by Joe Marino.
