In the middle of one of the world's most watched intersections, on an ordinary Monday afternoon, a young professional named Erin Piacenti was killed by a stranger she had never encountered — a reminder that public space, for all its vitality, remains a place where the fractures of mental illness and the randomness of violence can converge without warning. The 32-year-old Bank of America vice president died from stab wounds inflicted near One Times Square, where a 49-year-old Queens woman drew two knives from a shopping bag and attacked without provocation. Police, unable to subdue her with a T
Bank of America VP killed in random Times Square stabbing; suspect fatally shot by police
Erin Piacenti, 32, a Bank of America vice president, was killed in the stabbing attack. A 68-year-old man was also stabbed and injured. The suspect was fatally shot by police.