Make New York Post a Preferred Source Tragic jogger Katie Suarez will be laid to rest in Brooklyn this week — as authorities continue to mount their case against her accused killer, including by having her parents testify before a grand jury Monday.
Suarez, a beloved bank teller and the daughter of a city bus driver, will be mourned at a wake from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the Cusimano & Russo Funeral Home at 2005 W. Sixth St. in her home borough of Brooklyn, according to an online obituary.
A funeral Mass for her will then be held at 11:45 a.m. Thursday at St. Simon & Judge Roman Catholic Church at 185 Van Sicklen St. in Brooklyn, the obit said.
The 28-year-old Brooklyn College grad will be buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
The somber details emerged as Suarez’s parents and brother testified by a grand jury Monday morning and then returned home under NYPD escort, law-enforcement sources told The Post.
Suarez’s mother had met her daughter after the young woman got off work from her job at a Gravesend TD Bank the evening of Oct. 30 and watched as she jogged off in a local park, a ritual that typically ended with the victim meeting up with her parents after her workout.
Suarez’s dad eventually joined his wife at the park to wait for their daughter to finish running, but the pair then became concerned when they couldn’t reach their child.
The parents split up to find her, and Suarez’s father soon discovered her on a path mortally wounded.
“She was a darling girl with a heart full of kindness and a twinkle of fun in her eye,” high-school friend Lauren Alzos wrote in a touching tribute online. “I’m so sorry her life was taken. To her family, may God grant you peace eventually.”
The slain woman’s father, Nery Suarez, has worked as a bus driver out of the Jackie Gleason Depot for 23 years, Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union said in a press release.
TWU Local 100 Vice President of TA Surface Gary Rosario shared his heartfelt condolences:
“As a father, I cannot imagine the pain of losing a child,” TWU Local 100 President TA Surface Gary Rosario said in a statement. “Please know that you are not alone. We stand with you, we care about you, and we are here for you during this heartbreaking time.”
Police arrested former NYPD cop Sayed Mohassib, a 27-year-old city schools paraprofessional, and charged him with second-degree murder in the senseless, apparently random attack.
Mohassib was on the police force for six weeks before leaving to join the US Marines Corps, only to be turned away from the armed force because of concerns over his mental health — with the NYPD then refusing to take him back.
On Monday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani launched an investigation to determine how the troubled ex-cop was able to land a job in the city school system.
He is being held without bail at Rikers Island and is due back in Manhattan court Tuesday.
