Cops are investigating whether someone fishing off a Brooklyn promenade may have used their bait knife to slash the throat of jogger Katie Suarez last week, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Monday.
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sources → investigate → Monday
The theory surfaced as police explore every possible avenue in the baffling case, since investigators do not yet have a motive, much less a suspect, in what they currently believe is a random attack, sources said.
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sources → surface → motive
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.
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sources → come → bait
The startling attack came after a jogger was raped in Central Park last month, and police noted Monday that some details of Suarez’s stabbing echo the murder case of Karina Vetrano, a 30-year-old Queens woman whose body was discovered by her father after she was slain on a jog by a random attacker in 2016.
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she → come → 2016
“Listen, it’s very eerily similar to the Howard Beach Jogger case,” Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters of Suarez’s attack and Vetrano’s murder.
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Kenny → listen → attack
“It’s not too far from where it was,” he said of both incidents.
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he → ’ → incidents
“I ran that case as well.
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I → run → case
“I actually went back and read that case … to see if there’s anything jogs my memory that might assist in this.”
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The revelations came as Suarez, who is brain dead, remained on life support because her family can’t bear to take her off yet, a relative told The Post.
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relative → come → Post
“The mom is really hesitant on pulling the plug.
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mom → pull → plug
She doesn’t want to see her daughter leave just yet,” said cousin Gianluca Frances, 19.
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Frances → want → ?
“It’s heartbreaking.
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It → ’ → ?
Right now the defibrillator is currently what’s sustaining her to maintain oxygen in her lungs, so she’s not looking good,” Frances said of his 28-year-old cousin.
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Frances → sustain → cousin
“There’s some family that still wants to come to the hospital to see her.”
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that → ’ → her
Family members told police that Suarez — who was stabbed on both sides of her neck as she jogged on the Shore Parkway Greenway promenade around 8 p.m. Friday — had no known boyfriend or enemies.
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she → tell → boyfriend
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.
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Saurez, who graduated from Brooklyn College, had just gotten off work as a TD Bank teller at Caesar’s Bay Shopping Center in Gravesend and met up with her mom in front of a nearby Wendy’s restaurant around 6:50 p.m., sources said.
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sources → graduate → p.m.
She left her mom to go jogging along the Belt Parkway, and the mother was soon joined by her dad — a typical ritual for the family, cops and sources said.
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cops → leave → family
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.
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police → call → p.m.
Suarez told them she was about 5 minutes away.
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she → tell → them
When she failed to meet up at the agreed-upon spot, the dad called her again — but Suarez didn’t pick up this time.
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Suarez → fail → her
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.
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police → split → p.m.
The critically wounded young woman had tried to continue to run after being attacked but only about 150 feet before she collapsed under a tree, police said Monday.
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police → wound → tree
“After a period of time, the father begins to get worried because he knows she should be meeting them,” Kenny said.
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Kenny → begin → them
“The father then begins to walk the path, and unfortunately, he finds her underneath a tree, bleeding heavily from the neck.
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he → begin → neck
The distraught father then called 911, along with another bystander who was walking on the path with his girlfriend, Kenny said.
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Kenny → call → girlfriend
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.
“In that 20-minute time period that we think that this attack could take place, over 1,700 cars drove by.
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So this is a well-traveled location,” Kenny said.
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Kenny → travel → ?
As a memorial grew at the family’s nearby home, workers at a Shore Parkway Wendy’s that Suarez frequented shared fond memories of their regular customer.
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Suarez → grow → customer
It’s very sad,” said a Wendy’s worker who confirmed she worked at nearby TD Bank.
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she → ’ → Bank
Saurez’s coworkers were tight-lipped, but the bank issued a statement saying it was “deeply saddened by this tragic incident involving a TD colleague” and was “actively cooperating with law enforcement.”
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As police continued to explore every possible avenue for a break in the case, Suarez’s cousin called for additional resources to deter future attacks.
“Hopefully a story like this can encourage public policy handlers to incorporate policemen or officers into the park, or a camera installed,” Frances said.
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Frances → continue → park
Kenny said, “We have a tremendous amount of assets dedicated to this.
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We’ve set up a task force.
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We have major case on it.
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We’re really working it on.
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We’ve done we’ve done a lot of work in the last few days.
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we → do → days
Police meanwhile pounded the pavement in the area Monday handing out fliers offering a $10,000 cash reward for information leading to an arrest. K-9 units, scuba teams and drones also have been deployed to look for any leads.
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units → pound → leads
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