He allegedly knifed a young woman and left her for dead on a Brooklyn waterfront path, then went right back to school to work with little kids.
Sayed Mohassib, a 27-year-old school teacher’s aide and former NYPD officer, was back among children within days of the October 30 stabbing of bank teller Katie Suarez, according to reports. The elementary school where he worked sits just blocks from the waterfront promenade where 28-year-old Suarez was killed.
Staffers knew something was off, The New York Post reported. Coworkers told cops the aide was babbling and behaving strangely, sources told the Post, though those tips didn’t crack the case. Kids noticed, too. Two youngsters said they spotted him muttering to himself and looking on edge.
Mohassib was arrested Saturday and ordered held without bail on charges of second-degree murder, evidence tampering and weapons possession. Education officials suspended him and vowed to move to fire him, pending the outcome of the case.
Suarez had just finished her shift at TD Bank and was running beside the Belt Parkway near Bay 17th Street around 8 p.m. when she was stabbed at least twice in the neck.
She had just told her parents she was minutes ...