Susan Edelman

Veteran reporter, independent. Focus on NYC schools, city gov’t, 1st-responders. Contact: [email protected].

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Red flags: At least 10 people complained to school administrators about PS.200 teacher’s aide Sayed Mohassib since September, raising concerns about his “blank stare’’ and showing a gun medallion on his necklace to students, @nypost reports. School officials rebuffed the fear. “They were told to stop being racist and stop looking at Instagram.” Mohassib is charged with fatally stabbing jogger Katie Suarez on a nearby path.
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@TheSalGreco @NYPDPC @NYPDDCPI @NYCMayor @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCCouncil Amazing none of them fell onto the tracks.

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A glimpse of accused killer Sayed Mohassib with children at PS 200 in Brooklyn. Angry parents await answers from the NYC DOE on how it hired Mohassib as a teacher's aide after the NYPD rejected him.

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Here is another photo of Sayed Mohassib who is accused of murdering Brooklyn jogger Katie Suarez, this time working with kids in NYC Schools at P.S.200.

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Mayor Mamdani pledged to hold the killer of Katie Suarez "fully accountable.” Whether he holds the DOE accountable for hiring suspect Sayed Mohassib as a teacher's aide despite his troubled history with the NYPD remains to be seen. With elected officials demanding an investigation, Mamdani promised "a full review."

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How was a murder suspect hired as a teacher’s aide by NYC Schools, even after the NYPD raised concerns about his behavior and would not allow him to be a cop?
I follow up with Mayor Mamdani on the murder of jogger Katie Suarez and suspect Sayed Mohassib.
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"Show some class." A veteran NYC DOE paraprofessional urges her union, @UFT, to cover funeral costs for the family of Katie Suarez, 28, who was fatally stabbed allegedly by one of their own, a teacher's aide at P.S. 200 in Brooklyn.

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Suspended DOE school aide Mohassib has a history of emotional problems. Two years ago, police sources say, his mother and sister called 911 after he threatened to "chop them up."
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The NYC Department of Education needs to explain how it hired Sayed Mohassib, charged with fatally stabbing jogger Katie Suarez in Brooklyn, despite his mental health issues in the military and NYPD, which booted him as a cop. The DOE assigned Mohassib as a substitute classroom aide at P.S. 200, a 1,200 student elementary in Bensonhurst, where he worked since 2024, making $17,945 last school year.
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@ARSNYC123 He was in the classroom before and after the stabbing.

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@nycexpatmom FOILing his personnel records; may answer that question.

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His wife is listed as a DOE school social worker who made $83K last school year.

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"A huge waste of resources:” Due to protests, the NYC DOE in April aborted plans to open "Next Generation Technology HS," the first focused on AI, after raising the salary of expected principal Caleb Haraguchi-Combs from $142K to $192K. But the ex-assistant principal who moonlights as rapper Cal Combs, continues to collect the higher salary while not working in ANY school, David Spector reports.
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@NYCPBASOS But fit to work with children.

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@nycexpatmom @NYC_TeacherMom Did he tell them the NYPD had refused to reinstate him after he served six weeks as a cop?

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Before hiring Mohassib to work with children, did the DOE ask the NYPD why they denied Mohassib's reinstatement as a cop after just six weeks in that job?

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@ChrisMc2910 No transparency.

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Mayor Mamdani, who started his term by appointing a Chief Savings Officer in each city department, did not address why Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore took five other fire officials to Puerto Rico, or what it would cost.
City Hall would not say how many administration officials attended SOMOS.
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