Awaaz Punjab first reported this attack on November 1, when police had not released the victim's name and said she was alive and in critical condition. That earlier report is here: Read the original November 1 report

Katie Suarez, 28, has died from the stab wounds she suffered while jogging on Brooklyn's Shore Parkway Greenway, her family told WABC. Suarez was attacked on the evening of Friday, October 30, 2026, on the waterfront path near Bay 17th Street in Bath Beach, beside the Belt Parkway above Gravesend Bay. She was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn in critical condition, remained on life support for days, and died on Monday night, November 2, according to her family. Reports citing her family said she had been declared brain dead and that she was kept on life support as an organ donor — a final act her mother described to reporters outside the family home.

Source: WABC / ABC7 New York reporting, via ABC News

Exactly what happened on the path

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters that investigators have narrowed the attack to a window of roughly 16 minutes, between about 7:56 p.m. and 8:12 p.m., on the stretch of greenway between Bay 8th Street and Bay 17th Street. Suarez was stabbed in the neck — police described wounds on either side of her neck — in what Kenny called a very violent attack. Despite her injuries, she managed to run about 150 feet before collapsing beneath a tree. At about 8:16 p.m. her father, who had gone out looking for her when she did not return home, found her bleeding on the path and called 911; another passerby walking with his girlfriend also called emergency services, Kenny said.

Source: NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, briefing reported by ABC News and the New York Post

'It appears it was a random attack'

Kenny said detectives believe the attack was random: 'Right now, it seems that it's random. Nobody else would have known that she was running there at that particular time, and as of right now, it appears it was a random attack.' Police said Suarez was not robbed and was not sexually assaulted, and her cellphone and jewellery were still with her when she was found — which is why robbery is not being treated as the motive. No suspect has been identified, no description has been released, and no motive has been established. One theory investigators are reviewing, according to police reporting, is whether someone fishing along the promenade could have used a bait knife — police stress that is a line of inquiry, not a finding.

Source: ABC News, quoting NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny

A crime scene with no cameras

The investigation's central problem is that the stretch of greenway where Suarez was attacked has no fixed surveillance cameras. Detectives have instead built the case around vehicles: a licence-plate reader logged roughly 1,700 cars on the nearby Belt Parkway corridor, and police are asking every driver who passed between 7 and 9 p.m. to check dashcam footage. The NYPD deployed K-9 teams, drones, aviation and scuba units to search the path, the tall grass and the water below in the first days after the attack, posted signs and a digital billboard along the route, and officers have begun installing temporary cameras near the scene while neighbours and local officials push for permanent lighting, surveillance and more patrols on the greenway.

The runner, and the weekend she was training through

Suarez was a Brooklyn College graduate and a dedicated runner who lived less than a mile from where she was attacked, according to her family and local reporting. She was attacked on the Friday evening of New York City Marathon weekend — the marathon ran through all five boroughs that Sunday — on one of southern Brooklyn's most-used exercise routes, a path that carries a steady stream of runners, walkers and cyclists on any mild evening. For the New York–New Jersey Punjabi community, which turns out in large numbers for the marathon and uses waterfront paths like this one for evening training runs, the case has landed as a direct safety question: how well lit the greenway is after dark, and how often it is patrolled.

What is solid, and what is not

What happens next

Detectives continue to canvass the greenway and the streets that feed into it, work through the licence-plate and dashcam material, and review the new temporary-camera footage from the scene. The next developments that matter are a suspect description or images from the NYPD, an arrest, or a police statement establishing a motive. Awaaz Punjab will update this story when the NYPD releases any of those — and, as with the original report, will not treat unconfirmed social-media claims about a suspect as fact.