Authorities have released the identity of the woman killed when police say an emotionally disturbed woman started stabbing people in the heart of Times Square Monday afternoon. Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old from Chester, New Jersey, was stabbed in the abdomen. She was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time after the attack in the tourist-heavy area near 41st Street and Seventh Avenue. Piacenti was an executive with Bank of America. Her employer released a statement on her death Tuesday: “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague.  She was a valued teammate who will be greatly missed.” “Our hearts go out to her family and all of her loved ones,” it continued. Piacenti, who lived in Chester, did her undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania before graduating from Fordham Law School in 2021 alongside her husband, Frank. Fordham said in a statement they’d been “cherished members of the Fordham Law family” since. Police say Pamela Cisneros, the 49-year-old Queens woman shot dead by police after killing Piacenti and stabbing a 68-year-old man during the afternoon spree, had a documented history of mental health concerns. The 68-year-old had just come out of the subway with his wife. A witness told police Cisneros took out the knives from a red Target bag before approaching the couple. After waving the weapons around, the suspect stabbed the 68-year-old man in his side. She then went up a block and attacked Piacenti. The stabbings happened about 20 seconds apart. They are believed to be random and unprovoked, with no apparent nexus to terror, according to law enforcement sources. The first victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where police said he was recovering. “Tonight, our thoughts are, of course, with the victims of this horrific attack and their families. One life cut far too short by a senseless act of violence,” said Tisch. Following the two stabbings, Cisneros continued up Seventh Avenue, where she encountered police between 42nd and 43rd streets, according to police said. She was still armed with both knives at that time. Officers spoke to her for four minutes, telling her to drop the knives, but she refused, police said. The responding officers fired stun guns at her, which did not appear to be effective, police said. Cisneros then advanced toward officers, two of whom opened fire at her. She was taken to the hospital, where she died. The NYPD had a documented history of mental health concerns regarding Cisneros dating back to 2018 and 2019, but she had no criminal history. In 2018, she was reportedly screaming and acting erratically at a building on Lexington Avenue on the East Side of Manhattan; In 2019, she apparently tried to or claimed she was going to take her life by jumping in front of the subway at Union Turnpike in Queens. Both knives allegedly used by the suspect were recovered at the scene. ...read more read less