As Families Mourn, Police Seek Answers in Fatal Times Square Attack

The New York Police Department is still trying to piece together what led a 49-year-old woman to stab two strangers, one fatally. By Maria Cramer Chelsia Rose Marcius and Mark Bonamo Erin Piacenti was walking through Times Square in Manhattan on Monday afternoon, heading home from work, when she passed in front of a vendor selling sunglasses and baseball hats on the street. A 32-year-old vice president at Bank of America, Ms. Piacenti 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, about how her daughter had recently been baptized.

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