Ex-NYPD maniac admitted to slashing NYC jogger Katie Suarez after video caught him leaving park around same time: police sources

A Brooklyn man has been charged with second-degree murder after police say he admitted to attacking jogger Katie Suarez, though he told investigators he could not remember the assault. Police sources said video showed him leaving the park around the time she was attacked, and the case has renewed attention on the safety of public running routes.

Suarez, 28, was attacked on 30 October along the Shore Parkway Greenway and later died in hospital; her organs were donated. Investigators say she was not robbed or sexually assaulted and have described the attack as apparently random. The 27-year-old suspect, a former NYPD officer who later worked as a school aide, reportedly said he woke from a blackout covered in blood with the knife; police believe it was discarded and taken to a landfill.