Make New York Post a Preferred Source The psycho ex-cop accused of murdering a Brooklyn jogger returned to his job with kids at a city public school right after the slaying — and sources revealed Monday he also previously killed the family pet.
“You don’t know who is teaching our kids. It’s just shocking,’’ said shaken Jasmine Cotto, a parent of a first- and second-grader at PS 200 in Brooklyn where the suspect worked, to The Post on Monday.
“He came here the next day like nothing happened,’’ Scotto said of accused killer Sayed Mohassib, who was working as a teacher’s aide at the school when he allegedly went off the deep end and randomly stabbed 28-year-old runner Katie Suarez.
The heinous crime occurred Friday Oct. 30, and as cops frantically searched for Suarez’s then-on-the-lam killer, he was already back in the classsroom with kids that Monday three days later, law-enforcement sources said. He was only just nabbed Saturday.
“It’s crazy because what if he came here and started killing kids or the teachers?’’ Cotto said outside her kids’ school. “That’s what went through my mind.’’
Mohassib, 27, became a para-professional at PS 200 despite a history of psychotic behavior that got him booted from the Marines and barred from a second stint with the NYPD, after he previously lasted as a cop for about six weeks.
His mother told police that he once killed the family pet, a cat or dog, law-enforcement sources noted.
The suspect is accused of randomly stabbing Suarez twice in the neck as she ran along a path at a popular Brooklyn promenade, with him allegedly telling cops he took a knife to the scene because he believed someone would kill his family if he didn’t.
He was caught thanks to surveillance footage of him entering and exiting the park area around the time of the slaying, along with facial-recognition technology used on photos he needed for his government and public-service work.
Mohassib joined the NYPD in 2022, but left just six weeks later to join the US Marine Corps, sources have said.
But the corps rejected him within a month over concerns about his mental state – and the NYPD then refused to let him rejoin the police force in January 2023 because he appeared “disheveled,” the sources said.
By then he was working as an hourly support staffer for the city Department of Education, and in 2024 was hired as a para professional – the same year cops responded to a report at his Bensonhurst home that he threatened to chop up his family.
It wasn’t until Monday that DOE officials said Mohassib had been fired – following a call by Mayor Zohran Mamdani for a thorough investigation over his city schools job.
Meanwhile, PS 200 parents were left in shock as the details emerged.
“My daughter saw him last night on TV and told me, ‘Dad, I see him every day!’” dad Joseph Hasbani told The Post. “’He’s in my school. We see him every single day.’ I said, ‘Wow! That’s really insane.’ I hope this doesn’t happen again at any other public school.”
