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NYC Marathon Trainee Katie Suarez Dies After Brutal Waterfront Stabbing in Brooklyn | Crime Alert 11.06.26 · Crime Alert Hourly Update

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alert, hourly update, breaking.
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  Speaker 2: Crime news now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Sydney Silvani. A 28-year-old woman training for the New
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  Speaker 3: York City Marathon has died following a brutal and unprovoked
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  Speaker 3: attack along a Brooklyn waterfront jogging path. Katie Suarez was
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  Speaker 3: taken off life support and passed away Monday night, according
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  Speaker 3: to her grieving family. The NYPD reports Suarez was stabbed
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  Speaker 3: twice in the neck while jogging on Shore Parkway last week.
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  Speaker 3: Authority State Suarez coordinated to meet her parents for an
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  Speaker 3: evening run and was jogging toward them around 8.15 when
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  Speaker 3: she was ambushed. Her father called her around 8 o'clock,
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  Speaker 3: with Suarez confirming she was roughly a half mile away
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  Speaker 3: and would arrive soon. When she failed to appear, her
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  Speaker 3: worried parents split up along the path to search for
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  Speaker 3: their daughter. Recounting that frantic search to ABC7, her mother,
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  Speaker 3: Yacira Suarez, described the terror of trying to reach her.
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  Speaker 1: I told my husband, let's go, let's try to find her.
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  Speaker 1: She hasn't returned yet and it's getting late. So I
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  Speaker 1: went out to look for her, but I think I
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  Speaker 1: must have gone past the spot where she actually was.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see her because it was dark. I told
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  Speaker 1: my husband she's not here and he took off running
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  Speaker 1: using his phone to look for her. And he called
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  Speaker 1: me and said, she's here, I just found her. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't even respond. I just ran all the way back.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like miles, like I'd never get there, but
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted to reach her.
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  Speaker 3: Suarez's father discovered his daughter lying along the path, suffering
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  Speaker 3: from two severe stab wounds to her neck. She was
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  Speaker 3: rushed to NYU Langone Hospital, Brooklyn, where she remained on
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  Speaker 3: life support for three days before succumbing to her injuries.
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  Speaker 3: Police have not yet identified a suspect. NYPD Chief of
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  Speaker 3: Detectives Joseph Kenney called Suarez a family-oriented, work-oriented, productive member
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  Speaker 3: of society who graduated from Brooklyn College in 2020 and
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  Speaker 3: worked as a teller at TD Bank. Kenney emphasized the
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  Speaker 3: attack appears completely random, noting nobody else could have known
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  Speaker 3: she was running there at that time. Investigators searched the
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  Speaker 3: crime scene using canine units and divers in the nearby water.
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  Speaker 3: Police are asking rideshare drivers for dashcam footage, offering a
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  Speaker 3: $ 10, 000 reward and urging anyone with information to contact Crime
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  Speaker 3: Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. More crime and justice news after this.
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  Speaker 3: In upstate New York, an 18-year-old has been convicted of
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  Speaker 3: murdering his teenage girlfriend while discussing her possible pregnancy. Raymond
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  Speaker 3: Wright Jr. was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder for
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  Speaker 3: the November 2022 death of Samantha Humphrey, when both teenagers
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  Speaker 3: were just 14. Humphrey was last seen at Riverside Park
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  Speaker 3: in Schenectady before her body was found three months later,
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  Speaker 3: submerged in the Mohawk River. Prosecutors proved Wright strangled Humphrey
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  Speaker 3: during a violent argument over whether she was pregnant and
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  Speaker 3: if he was the father. While a medical examiner confirmed strangulation,
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  Speaker 3: Wright claimed he punched her in the nose and shoved
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  Speaker 3: her into the river. Prosecutors presented DNA evidence, GPS coordinates,
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  Speaker 3: and phone records. Speaking at a press conference broadcast by WRGB,
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  Speaker 3: Assistant District Attorney Christina Tremonte Pelham highlighted a critical gap
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  Speaker 3: in Wright's alibi.
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  Speaker 2: I think one of the most incriminating things in this
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  Speaker 2: case was that he could never account for that hour
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  Speaker 2: and a half between when we know Samantha made that
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  Speaker 2: last phone call at 11.36 to when he gets home,
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  Speaker 2: which is after 1 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: Evidence showed Wright searched online how long it takes a
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  Speaker 3: body to come apart in water the day after Humphrey vanished.
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  Speaker 3: On Monday, Humphrey's family watched Wright led away in handcuffs
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  Speaker 3: with her father, Jeff Humphrey, speaking to WRGB about their
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  Speaker 3: agonizing journey.
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  Speaker 1: We've gone through everything you could imagine.
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  Speaker 3: Hope, pain, doubt. We doubted the goodness of this city
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  Speaker 3: for a while. We doubted this could happen.
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  Speaker 1: It did happen.
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  Speaker 3: Humphrey also shared what he once remembered about his daughter.
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  Speaker 1: What I want people to remember about Sam is despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it probably killed her, she was not afraid.
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  Speaker 1: She did not live in fear.
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  Speaker 3: Wright, arrested in May 2025, faces up to life in
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  Speaker 3: prison when sentenced on January 20th next year. In Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: a man who reported his mother missing was sentenced to
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  Speaker 3: 10 years in prison for burning her body to keep
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  Speaker 3: her death hidden. 35-year-old Jason Christopher Campbell was found guilty
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  Speaker 3: Friday in Banks County Superior Court of concealing the death
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  Speaker 3: of 62-year-old Marie Campbell following five days of testimony. Campbell
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  Speaker 3: reported his mother missing from their Homer home in January 2025,
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  Speaker 3: claiming to authorities that an unknown person picked her up
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  Speaker 3: and she never returned. Just one day earlier, on January 7th,
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  Speaker 3: Campbell called 911, telling dispatchers that his mother had been
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  Speaker 3: abducted by aliens. Deputies searched the residence, finding Marie's car, purse, identification,
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  Speaker 3: and cell phone still at the home. In the backyard,
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  Speaker 3: investigators discovered an active fire burning alongside a burned mattress
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  Speaker 3: and human remains, along with the vehicle, with one seat missing.
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  Speaker 3: Forensic DNA testing confirmed the remains belonged to Marie Campbell,
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  Speaker 3: who worked at a TJ Maxx in Cornelia, though authorities
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  Speaker 3: could not determine her cause or manner of death. According
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  Speaker 3: to District Attorney George Christian, prosecutors proved Campbell burned his
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  Speaker 3: mother's body to conceal her death, but did not charge
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  Speaker 3: him with causing her death. The Banks County Sheriff's Office
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  Speaker 3: investigated alongside the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, the
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  Speaker 3: Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and the four SIF and
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  Speaker 3: Hall County Sheriff's Offices. For more crime and justice news,
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  Speaker 3: be sure to join us for Crime Stories with Nancy
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  Speaker 3: Grace on Fox One, YouTube, Sirius XM, and now streaming
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  Speaker 3: on Tubi. With this crime alert, I'm Sydney Silvani.