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MIDTOWN (WABC) -- The victims stabbed and the suspect who was shot by police in Times Square on Monday have been identified. Police say 32-year-old Erin Piacenti died at the hospital. The other victim, a 68-year-old man, was hospitalized at Bellevue, but was released late Tuesday afternoon. The NYPD said they were stabbed in a "random and unprovoked" attack by 39-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens. According to investigators, Cisneros was threatening people with two knives near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue around 4:26 p.m. on Monday and stabbed the male victim and Piacenti.
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Times Square stabbing: Victims, suspect identified in deadly stabbings, police-involved shooting - ABC7 New York. Officers deployed tasers twice before two officers discharged their service weapons, Tisch said.
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