New York AG Investigates NYPD Shooting of 49-Year-Old Times Square Stabbing Suspect
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Updated · NBC New York · Sep 3
New York AG Investigates NYPD Shooting of 49-Year-Old Times Square Stabbing Suspect
3 articles · Updated · NBC New York · Sep 3
Summary
New York Attorney General Letitia James opened a probe into the NYPD shooting that killed Pamela Cisneros after officers confronted her following Monday’s Times Square stabbings.
Police said the 49-year-old Queens woman had stabbed Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti, 32, and a 68-year-old man, then refused orders to drop two knives before officers shot her.
Piacenti, a new mother on her first day back from maternity leave, died after being stabbed in the abdomen; the other victim was hospitalized and is expected to survive.
A crowdfunding campaign for Piacenti’s 5-month-old daughter had raised more than $500,000 by Thursday, as attention also turned to Cisneros’ documented mental-health incidents in 2018 and 2019.