Attack in Times Square: armed with two knives, she killed one person, injured another and was killed by the Police

The episode occurred in the middle of the afternoon in one of the busiest tourist areas of Manhattan and the authorities identified the author of the “random” aggression as Pamela Cisnerosa resident of the borough of Queens who had a history of incidents involving mental health.

The Police Chief Jessica Tisch Cisneros said that around 4:30 p.m. He took two knives out of a supermarket bag and in a matter of 20 seconds stabbed a 68-year-old man in the abdomenwho remained hospitalized in stable condition, already a 32 year old womanwho died in the hospital.

The Police quickly intervened and tried to convince Cisneros to drop his weapons. “The officers engaged in a dialogue with the woman for four minutes and gave her numerous commands to drop the knives, which she refused,” Tisch said.

“I’m not going to let anything go, I would rather kill them both. I will kill them!“The aggressor responded to the police, who used electric shock guns (taser) that “turned out to be ineffective” and then shot her with their service weapons when she advanced towards them brandishing knives, the police chief said.

Cisneros was also taken to the hospital, where doctors certified her dead. “We have no reason to believe that this was an act of terrorism,” clarified Tisch, who acknowledged that it has been “an extraordinarily dangerous situation.”

The event, specifically, took place near 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue, an area usually busy with tourists, and which was temporarily closed to the public.

He mayor, Zohran Mamdanipresent at the press conference, expressed his solidarity with the families of the victimswho have not been identified because their relatives are still being informed, and thanked the police for the quick intervention to prevent “a horrible attack from being even worse.”

The police had records of mental health “incidents” of the aggressor in 2018 and 2019but there were no arrests, Tisch said.