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PHILADELPHIA – The woman who was killed in a stabbing spree in Times Square<\/a> earlier this week has been identified as a 32-year-old banking executive from New Jersey<\/a> who had recently returned to work from maternity leave.<\/p>\n Erin Piacenti was one of two people stabbed in Monday’s deadly attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n Deadly Times Square stabbing, NYPD shooting <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The stabbing spree happened on Monday, Aug. 31. NYPD investigators say 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros, wielding two “sword-like knives,” stabbed two people in Times Square, in what investigators believe was a “random and unprovoked attack.<\/p>\n The first victim, police said, was a 68-year-old man, who remains hospitalized in stable condition.<\/p>\n Seconds later, officials said Cisneros stabbed Piacenti in the stomach near West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. Piacenti was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n NYPD officers then shot and killed Cisneros.<\/p>\n Mother recently returned from maternity leave <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Piacenti’s death comes as she recently returned to work following maternity leave. According to the New York Times<\/a>, Piacenti was back at work for less than a week before the attack.<\/p>\n The 32-year-old from Chester, New Jersey, was a vice president for Bank of America. The bank’s office is neaby.<\/p>\n In a statement to FOX 5 NY, a Bank of America spokesperson said that “we are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic loss of our colleague,” calling her a “valued teammate who will be greatly missed.”<\/p>\n Piacenti, along with her husband, earned a law degree from Fordham University in 2021, according to a report from The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n NYPD investigation\u00a0 <\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n NYPD officers shot and killed Cisneros, after officers said she threatened to kill them before coming at them with the two knives.\u00a0<\/p>\n Officials are still investigating the shooting, and the city plans to release body-worn camera video of the incident at a later date.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story is from the NYPD on their investigation into the stabbing spree on Monday, Aug. 31, a press conference held on Aug. 31 by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch, a statement from Bank of America to FOX 5 NY, on the death of Erin PIacenti and a report from the Associated Press on Erin Piacenti.<\/p>\n Crime & Public Safety<\/a>New York<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article PHILADELPHIA – The woman who was killed in a stabbing spree in Times Square earlier this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,139,1169,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-277638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}