A 32-year-old woman was killed, and a 68-year-old man was wounded in what the New York Police Department described as a random and unprovoked double stabbing in Times Square on Monday afternoon. Officers then fatally shot the woman accused of the attack, 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens, after a four-minute standoff in which she refused repeated commands to put down two knives.
Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Cisneros had a documented mental health history with the department, involving incidents in 2018 and 2019, and no arrest record. That single detail is why this story belongs in a health publication and not only on a crime page, and it is also the detail most likely to be misread.
