Times Square stabbing ends in NYPD deadly shootout; family cites lifelong mental illness

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Pamela Cisneros, 49, randomly stabbed two people in Times Square on Aug. 31, killing Erin Piacenti and injuring another, before being fatally shot by NYPD officers. Her family says she battled decades of mental illness, including postpartum depression, with multiple hospitalizations and a past suicide attempt, and authorities noted prior crises but no violent-arrests history.
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