Pamela Cisneros Times Square stabber was on medication for mental health issues, including bipolar disorder according to Queens woman brother and exhibited no signs of aggression and seemed fine but did admit the sister recently stopping her medication.
The brother of a Queens woman who went on a stabbing spree in NYC’s Times Square on Monday afternoon that left one victim dead and a second person seriously injured has revealed his sister struggling with mental health issues and possible bipolar disorder.
Pamela Cisneros, 49, according to her sibling seemingly lived a normal life in the days before she fatally knifed a woman, a Bank of America VP who had only recently celebrated her second wedding anniversary and seriously wounded a man during a random attack Monday.
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The episode led to Cisneros eventually being shot and killed by NYPD officers after attempts to tase the woman and repeated demands to release her two knives went unheeded.
‘She never showed any aggressiveness or being violent. I don’t know what happened,’ Patrick Peralta, 59, told the nypost.
Video shows NYPD cops confront Cisneros, still clutching two knives, after the two attacks near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
Officers first unsuccessfully used stun guns on her as she started to wildly flail her arms around, with an arm in each hand, then shot her when she charged them, the video shows.
She died from her wounds at Bellevue Hospital, officials said.
Peralta said he learned about the disturbing incident on the news, initially brushing it off as ‘typical New York crap.’
He said he couldn’t believe it was his sister, until he saw photographs from the showdown.
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Cisneros tried to commit suicide when she was around 19 and had been diagnosed with a mental health issue, Peralta said.
‘I think bipolar, but I don’t know what else was going on,’ he said, noting the sibling receiving monthly injections for treatment.
‘I think maybe she stopped the injection she was getting and that caused her to act the way she was.’
According to the Mayo Clinic, Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
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Key Mood States
- Manic Episodes (Highs): Periods of extreme energy, reduced need for sleep, racing thoughts, rapid speech, and impulsive or risky behavior. Severe mania can cause a break from reality, known as psychosis.
- Depressive Episodes (Lows): Periods of deep sadness, loss of interest in activities, low energy, feelings of worthlessness, and trouble concentrating.
- Hypomania: A less severe form of mania that does not disrupt daily life as intensely as full mania.
The last time Peralta saw his troubled sister was in August for their stepfather’s birthday, he said. She regularly visited their mother as well, but recently stopped, he said.
‘There was no sign something was wrong,’ he said. ‘Last week she stopped coming to see my mother.
‘We called, she said she was fine on Saturday.’
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