A violent incident unfolded in Midtown Manhattan on Monday afternoon when a woman wielding two knives attacked multiple people in the Times Square area. According to the New York Police Department, emergency dispatchers received multiple 911 calls at approximately 16:24 local time reporting the armed assailant along Seventh Avenue.
The attack began near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue, where the suspect approached a 68-year-old man who had just exited a nearby subway station and was standing with his wife. A witness observed the suspect removing two knives from a red Target bag before the assault. The 68-year-old man sustained a stab wound to his right abdomen in what authorities characterized as an unprovoked attack. He was transported to Bellevue Hospital and remains in stable condition.
The suspect continued northward on Seventh Avenue toward 42nd Street, where she stabbed a second victim, 32-year-old Erin Piacenti, a Bank of America employee. Piacenti was hospitalized but subsequently died from her injuries. Bank of America released a statement expressing shock and sadness over the loss of their colleague.
As the suspect continued along Seventh Avenue, NYPD officers engaged with her and attempted to persuade her to surrender her weapons for approximately four minutes. During this encounter, the suspect refused compliance and made threats toward the officers, stating she would not drop the knives and would rather kill them. When she waved the knives at police and advanced toward them, officers deployed Tasers, which proved ineffective. Officers then fired on the suspect, who was transported to Bellevue Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The suspect was identified as 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens. According to NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Cisneros had no prior arrest history but had documented mental health contacts with police in 2018 and 2019.
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