Pamela Cisneros, Times Square stabber struggled w/ postpartum depression with Queens woman thought to have stopped taking medication according to her brother with police records showing troubled woman previously throwing herself on NYC subway tracks in a bid to kill herself.
What led to one Queens woman losing control and going on a random stabbing spree, leading to the death of a woman, the injuring of an elderly man and the stabber ultimately shot dead after refusing countless NYPD officer demands to drop her knives?
The family of Times Square stabber Pamela Cisneros says she had a decades-long history of mental illness including postpartum depression, multiple hospitalizations — including a suicide attempt in which she threw herself on the subway tracks.
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Cisneros, 49, randomly stabbed two strangers, killing one of them, a Bank of America VP who had recently celebrated her second wedding anniversary before NYPD officers shot her dead.
Her brother Patrick Peralta speaking to media said he never knew his sister to harm anyone other than herself prior to Monday’s stabbing rampage.
‘I don’t know what was in her head,’ Peralta, 59, told the nydailynews. ‘I can’t tell you what she was thinking or if she just completely went blank. I don’t know where that rage came from.’
The sibling told the outlet that both he and Cisneros (who has a different mother) grew up with their mother in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC.
‘She was a happy-go-lucky kid,’ Peralta told the outlet. ‘In summertime, she was my tail because she would follow me around. She was like 5. I went out and played with my friends and she was always with me all the time.’
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Her mental health problems developed about two decades ago, after she gave birth to the second of her three daughters according to her brother.
‘She went off track after that,’ Peralta said.
Postpartum depression has come into the national spotlight with the Massachusetts trial of Lindsey Clancy, who’s accused of murdering her three children in January 2023. Clancy’s defense lawyer has argued she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Cisneros’ middle child is autistic and nonverbal and lives in a group home in Brooklyn, Peralta said. Cisneros would often visit her.
Her other two daughters live in Florida with their father, Pamela’s ex-husband, the sibling said.
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Several hospitalizations and suicide attempt
Cisneros, who has no arrest history in New York, has been hospitalized several times and seven years ago threw herself on the subway tracks in Queens only to be rescued by an onlooker, Peralta told the nydailynews.
‘Then she was in Jamaica Hospital,’ he said. ‘Then she went to Bellevue (Hospital) a couple of times. She was seeing doctors.’
Police sources confirm Cisneros jumped onto the tracks on the E train line at the Union Turnpike station on March 6, 2019.
That was one of two mental health crises involving the NYPD, the sources said. In the other incident, cops were called because she was drunk, screaming and acting belligerent at a hotel on Lexington Ave. near E. 49th St. in Midtown East on Dec. 20, 2018.
Because she had trouble taking daily psychiatric medication Cisneros was prescribed monthly injections instead, her brother said.
‘For the last six years now, she was getting injections and nothing was wrong,’ he said. ‘As long as she got the medication, she was fine … She never showed any violence towards anybody.’
‘She used to go in person (to get the injections) and then I just found out that now she was doing it herself,’ he added.
‘So I don’t know if she stopped doing it, because my parents are old and are they trying to check to make sure that she was getting injections. That’s the only thing I can suggest, that maybe she didn’t get the last couple of months of injections. Her brain was going all over.’
‘She used to come and eat dinner with my parents mostly every night,’ Peralta said. ‘But last week she didn’t show, so we started calling her to see what was going on.’
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The sibling last saw his sister for her father’s birthday on Aug, 8. ‘She was fine. Normal,’ Peralta said.
But was she? And had Cisneros recently stopped taking her medication and had that triggered her into a manic mood swings and Monday’s diabolical random stabbing?
The brother further said Cisneros was living alone in Woodside and had been out of work for a while. But three months ago she landed a job as an administrative assistant for a lawyer, her brother said.
‘My entire family feels so sorry for the two people, the one that passed away and the one who was hurt,’ Peralta told the dailynews. ‘We are so sorry. We never thought this would happen.’
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