00:11Police shot and killed a knife-wielding maniac attacking perfect strangers in Times Square.
00:16Two people are dead and another injured. Horrifying footage of the incident shows the
00:21tense moment NYPD officers confront a woman wildly brandishing two large sharp knives.
00:27That's 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros. She's instructed to drop the knives several times
00:33and refuses, saying, quote, I would rather kill both of you. I will kill you. She then charges,
00:39weapons in hand, haphazardly toward the police. Officers discharge their tasers, but Cisneros
00:45doesn't go down, and it's there that two of them fire off shots, ultimately killing her.
00:50This all went down after Cisneros, a Queens native, sent tourists running for their lives
00:55when she pulled knives out from a target bag and started stabbing people at random. A 68-year-old
01:01man was stabbed while coming out of the subway. Then a block north, 32-year-old Bank of America
01:06exec Aaron Piacente was stabbed in the abdomen and killed. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tish defended
01:12the officers, praising their quick actions. Our officers were confronted with a rapidly evolving
01:17threat with countless innocent people around them. In that moment, they did what we trained them to
01:25do. Pamela's brother Patrick told The Post that the mother of three suffered from mental health
01:29issues but had never been aggressive or violent. Police are still investigating a possible motive.
