Times Square stabbing: Victims, suspect identified in deadly stabbings, police-involved shooting - ABC7 New York

A 32-year-old woman, Erin Piacenti, died at the hospital after being stabbed Monday in what the NYPD described as a "random and unprovoked" attack in Times Square, while a 68-year-old man was hospitalized at Bellevue and released Tuesday afternoon.
Police identified the suspect as 39-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens, who was allegedly threatening people with two knives near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue around 4:26 p.m. before stabbing both victims in the abdomen.
According to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the 68-year-old man had just exited the subway with his wife when the suspect pulled the knives from a bag; Cisneros then moved up Seventh Avenue and stabbed Piacenti.
Witnesses flagged down officers, who confronted Cisneros for about four minutes and gave repeated commands to drop the knives, which she refused, reportedly telling them, "I'm not dropping anything. I would rather kill both of you."
Officers deployed tasers twice before two officers fired their service weapons, striking Cisneros, who was pronounced dead at a hospital; two knives were recovered from the scene.
Tisch said Cisneros had a documented mental health history, and Bank of America confirmed Piacenti worked as a vice president of business selection and conflicts, calling her loss deeply saddening.