Woman, 28, Stabbed in Neck While Training for N.Y.C. Marathon After Reportedly Telling Parents She Was Just Half a Mile Away
Katie Suarez, the 28-year-old woman stabbed while jogging in Brooklyn on Oct. 30, 2026Credit: NYPD
Katie Suarez was critically injured after being stabbed multiple times in the neck while jogging along a Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront trail at about 8 p.m. local time on Friday, Oct. 30
Suarez, 28, was reportedly planning to meet her parents after her run, but they became concerned when she failed to arrive and stopped answering her phone
The NYPD is asking anyone who witnessed suspicious activity in the area or who has any information about the attack to come forward
Police in New York are searching for answers after a woman was stabbed in the neck and left critically injured while jogging along a local path.
Katie Suarez was running on the Shore Parkway Greenway, a paved waterfront trail in Brooklyn, on Friday, Oct. 30, at approximately 8 p.m. local time when “she sustained multiple stab wounds to the neck,” according to a media release from the New York Police Department (NYPD) obtained by PEOPLE.
EMTs transported Suarez, 28, to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in critical condition, per the release.
Police sources said Suarez was training for the New York City Marathon at the time of the attack, according to ABC 7.
Katie SuarezCredit: NYPD
The New York Post reported that sources familiar with the family claim that Suarez had left work earlier that evening and had been planning to meet up with her mother and father after her run.
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The sources said Suarez’s parents spoke to her on the phone at around 8 p.m. and she told them she was about half a mile away, per the Post.
The sources said the woman’s parents became concerned when she failed to show up at their pre-planned meeting point and did not subsequently answer her phone, according to the outlet.
Authorities are asking anyone who may have seen Suarez between 7:56 p.m. and 8:12 p.m. “in the vicinity of the eastbound bike path along the Belt Parkway, between Bay 8 Street and Bay 17 Street,” or anyone with information regarding the assault to come forward.
Anyone with information can call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging on to the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on X @NYPDTips.
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