$10,000 Reward in the Stabbing of a Brooklyn Jogger, as Police Hand Out Flyers Near the Shore Parkway Path
Three days after Katie Suarez, 28, was stabbed in the neck while jogging in Bath Beach, the NYPD put a price on information: $10,000 through Crime Stoppers for a tip that leads to an arrest. Police say the attack appears random, and they are asking anyone who was on the path between 7:56 and 8:12 p.m. Friday to come forward.
The search for the person who stabbed a Brooklyn jogger on Friday night now carries a price. The NYPD is offering $10,000, through its Crime Stoppers program, for information leading to an arrest in the attack on Katie Suarez, 28, who was stabbed twice in the neck while jogging on the Shore Parkway Greenway at Bay 17th Street in Bath Beach just after 8 p.m. on Friday. Officers were back near the scene on Monday handing out flyers, three days into a search that has already used K-9 units, scuba teams and drones along the waterfront.
Suarez, a bank teller, had been on the phone with her father minutes before the attack and was jogging to meet her parents, about half a mile away, when she was assaulted. She was found with her jewelry still on and her pink cell phone still with her — the detail that has shaped the investigation. Police sources say investigators have ruled out robbery, found no indication of a sexual assault, and see no indication the attack was anything but random. Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny has described it the same way in public: a random attack, at this time. Suarez remains in hospital fighting for her life; no death has been reported, and the desk reports none.
What police need is a witness. The window is narrow — about 7:56 to 8:12 p.m. on Friday — and the stretch is specific: the path along the Belt Parkway between Bay 8th Street and Bay 17th Street. The department released a photograph of Suarez on Sunday, in her running gear, hoping someone who saw her that evening will place themselves in that window. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS; the $10,000 reward is for information that leads to an arrest.
This desk first reported the attack this morning (SQ-20261102-022). Monday's facts are the reward, the flyer canvass and the weekend search — the case itself, police say, still has no suspect, no motive and no description to publish. When the department releases one, this story's successor will carry it.
