{"id":391332,"date":"2026-11-02T22:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391332\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:06:20","slug":"detectives-probe-eerie-fisherman-theory-in-mystery-stabbing-of-nyc-jogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/391332\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives probe eerie fisherman theory in mystery stabbing of NYC jogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cops are investigating whether someone fishing off a Brooklyn promenade may have used their bait knife to slash the throat of jogger Katie Suarez<\/a>\u00a0last week, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.<\/p>\n

The theory surfaced as police explore every possible avenue in the baffling case, since investigators do not yet have a motive<\/a>, much less a suspect, in what they currently believe is a random attack, sources said.<\/p>\n

Detectives came up with the possibility since many people fish in the area of the attack and would have had a knife on them at the time for such things as cutting bait, sources said.<\/p>\n

Katie Suarez, 28, had just left her job as a bank teller and was jogging to meet up\u00a0with her father\u00a0when she was randomly stabbed on the Shore Parkway Greenway on Friday evening, cops said.
Katie Suarez \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

The startling attack came after a jogger was raped in Central Park<\/a> last month, and police noted Monday that some details of Suarez\u2019s stabbing echo the murder case of Karina Vetrano, a 30-year-old Queens woman whose body was discovered by her father<\/a> after she was slain on a jog by a random attacker in 2016. That killer is now behind bars.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, it\u2019s very eerily similar to the Howard Beach Jogger case,\u201d Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters of Suarez\u2019s attack and Vetrano\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not too far from where it was,\u201d he said of both incidents. \u201cI ran that case as well. \u201cI actually went back and read that case \u2026 to see if there\u2019s anything jogs my memory that might assist in this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suarez is brain dead and remains on life support. Katie Suarez \/ Linkedin<\/p>\n

The revelations came as Suarez, who is brain dead, remained on life support because her family can\u2019t bear to take her off yet, a relative told The Post.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mom is really hesitant on pulling the plug. She doesn\u2019t want to see her daughter leave just yet,\u201d said cousin Gianluca Frances, 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking. Right now the defibrillator is currently what\u2019s sustaining her to maintain oxygen in her lungs, so she\u2019s not looking good,\u201d Frances said of his 28-year-old cousin. \u201cThere\u2019s some family that still wants to come to the hospital to see her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Family members told police that Suarez \u2014 who was stabbed on both sides of her neck as she jogged on the Shore Parkway Greenway promenade\u00a0around 8 p.m. Friday \u2014 had no known boyfriend or enemies. <\/p>\n

NYPD officers hand out fliers Monday near the crime scene seeking information in the baffling case. Steven Vago\/NY Post<\/p>\n

Detectives have been scouring her pink-cell-phone and computer records to see whether there might have been something her family did not know about, sources said. <\/p>\n

Saurez, who graduated from Brooklyn College, had just gotten off work as a TD Bank teller at Caesar\u2019s Bay Shopping Center in Gravesend and met up with her mom in front of a nearby Wendy\u2019s restaurant around 6:50 p.m., sources said.<\/p>\n

She left her mom to go jogging along the Belt Parkway, and the mother was soon joined by her dad \u2014 a typical ritual for the family, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

The dad, who was still with the mom at this point, called their daughter at 7:56 p.m. to see where and when they should meet up, again, as usual, police and sources said. <\/p>\n

NYPD investigators review the scene of Suarez\u2019s stabbing in Bath Beach on Friday. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Suarez told them she was about 5 minutes away.<\/p>\n

When she failed to meet up at the agreed-upon spot, the dad called her again \u2014 but Suarez didn\u2019t pick up this time.<\/p>\n

The parents then split up to look for her, and the dad ended up finding her stabbed on the path at 8:16 p.m., police said. <\/p>\n

The critically wounded young woman had tried to continue to run after being attacked but\u00a0made it\u00a0only about 150 feet before she collapsed under a tree, police said Monday.<\/p>\n

Memorial candles and flowers for Suarez lie on West 17th Street in Brooklyn on Monday. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a period of time, the father begins to get worried because he knows she should be meeting them,\u201d Kenny said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe father then begins to walk the path, and unfortunately, he finds her underneath a tree, bleeding heavily from the neck.\u201d<\/p>\n

The distraught father then called 911, along with another bystander who was walking on the path with his girlfriend, Kenny said. <\/p>\n

Police were looking to talk to other walkers and joggers on the path as well as a food truck operator, who may have security footage and any drivers on the Belt that may have dashcam video, the chief said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that 20-minute time period that we think that this attack could take place, over 1,700 cars drove by. So this is a well-traveled location,\u201d Kenny said.<\/p>\n

As a memorial grew at the family\u2019s nearby home, workers at a Shore Parkway Wendy\u2019s that Suarez frequented shared fond memories of their regular customer. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe was very nice. She was an outgoing person. It\u2019s very sad,\u201d said a Wendy\u2019s worker who confirmed she worked at nearby TD Bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Saurez\u2019s coworkers were tight-lipped, but the bank issued a statement saying it was \u201cdeeply saddened by this tragic incident involving a TD colleague\u201d and was \u201cactively cooperating with law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

As police continued to explore every possible avenue for a break in the case, Suarez\u2019s cousin called for additional resources to deter future attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully a story like this can encourage public policy handlers to incorporate policemen or officers into the park, or a camera installed,\u201d Frances said.<\/p>\n

Kenny said, \u201cWe have a tremendous amount of assets dedicated to this. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve set up a task force. We have major case on it. We\u2019re really working it on. We\u2019ve done we\u2019ve done a lot of work in the last few days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police meanwhile pounded the pavement in the area Monday handing out fliers offering a $10,000 cash reward<\/a> for information leading to an arrest. K-9 units, scuba teams and drones also have been deployed to look for any leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are investigating whether someone fishing off a Brooklyn promenade may have used their bait knife to slash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,19085,57,9,56,63,65,64,14837,2442,58],"class_list":["post-391332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-investigations","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-runner","tag-stabbings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}