Woman Killed in Times Square Stabbing Identified as Bank of America VP
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The New York Police Department made public the names of some of the people involved in a seemingly random knife attack on a crowded Manhattan street, but questions remained.
Listen · 3:55 min Share full article A knife-wielding 49-year-old woman attacked two people in Times Square before she was shot and fatally wounded by the police. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times By Maria Cramer and Chelsia Rose Marcius
Ms. Piacenti, a 32-year-old vice president at Bank of America, had just started her first week back on the job: Four days earlier, she had posted a photo of herself on social media holding her newborn daughter and standing, beaming, next to her husband.
She wrote about how grateful she was to have spent the past five months on maternity leave and about how her daughter had recently been baptized. The young family had traveled to Rhode Island, Maine and Long Beach Island, N.J.
On Monday afternoon, Ms. Piacenti was standing near the vendor on West 43rd Street when she was approached, seemingly at random, by a 49-year-old woman who stabbed her in the abdomen. She was taken to NYC Health and Hospitals, where she was pronounced dead.
Ms. Piacenti was one of two people attacked by the woman, identified as Pamela Cisneros, in quick succession on Monday before police officers shot and fatally wounded the attacker. The other victim, a 68-year-old Rhode Island man named Tak Kam, was expected to recover.
A day later, the authorities were still trying to piece together what had led to the attack.
Ms. Cisneros had had two previous encounters with the police, Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said on Monday.
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