Psychiatric professional Pamela Cisneros wrote about an “apocalypse” shortly after giving birth; a past post of hers changed everything
Psychiatric professional Pamela Cisneros wrote about an “apocalypse” shortly after giving birth; a past post of hers changed everything.
Notably, there was a particularly alarming detail—a reference to individuals driven by the urge to “stab others for no reason.”
Months later, police described the attack in Times Square as a random, unprovoked act.
That post served as a warning or a revelation of Pamela Cisneros’s motive, set against the backdrop of her deteriorating mental health.
Divorce and postpartum depression were the driving factors; every word in that post revealed her true motive.
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Pamela Cisneros’s 2025 Facebook Post, Mental Health History, and the Times Square Attack
On November 30, 2025, approximately nine months before the events in Times Square, Pamela Cisneros published a lengthy Facebook post that mixed religious reflection with a list of contemporary social problems she interpreted as signs of the biblical “end times.” Among the items she enumerated was “the diminished love of people to the point of stabbing others for no reason.” The post, written in a rambling style filled with scriptural references, has drawn widespread attention since August 31, 2026, when Cisneros, according to police, carried out random stabbings in Midtown Manhattan that left one person dead and another injured before she herself was fatally shot by officers.
The full context of the post is important. Cisneros began by stating that she had been called upon by “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” to inform readers that the end times were present. She listed wars, pestilence, earthquakes, sex slavery, widespread drug use, persecution of Christians, hunger, homelessness, and the “diminished love of people to the point of stabbing others for no reason” as evidence. She directed readers to Matthew 24 in the Bible and urged love for one another according to the commandment in the Gospel of John. In the same post she wrote that the battlefield was in the mind and that some people hear voices telling them to kill someone or themselves, attributing such phenomena to spiritual warfare involving Satan. She did not claim in the post that she herself heard such voices, nor did she express any personal intention to commit violence.
A subsequent post the following month continued in a similar vein, asking why people feel empty in spirit and surrender to hopelessness, and pointing to faith in God as the answer. Her Facebook page also contained older photographs of family gatherings and messages that appeared more conventional. Reporting after the Times Square incident noted that her social media activity in the preceding year had increasingly turned toward extended religious commentary.
Police described the August 31, 2026, attack as random and unprovoked. According to official accounts, Cisneros, then 49 and living in Woodside, Queens, removed two kitchen knives from a Target bag near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue around 4:24 p.m. She stabbed a 68-year-old man and, roughly twenty seconds later, fatally stabbed 32-year-old Erin Piacenti, a Bank of America vice president. Officers confronted her near an NYPD substation. After approximately four minutes of commands that she refused, and after Tasers proved ineffective, two officers fired when she advanced while still armed. She was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.
Family members have provided extensive background on Cisneros’s long-term mental health challenges. Her brother, Patrick Peralta, stated that difficulties began roughly two decades earlier with postpartum depression after the birth of her second daughter and that he believed she later developed bipolar disorder. She had been hospitalized multiple times and had documented mental-health-related encounters with the NYPD in 2018 and 2019, including a suicide attempt in March 2019 when she jumped onto subway tracks. After that crisis she received monthly psychiatric injections that relatives said had helped her achieve a period of relative stability lasting several years. During that time, according to family accounts, she showed no aggression toward others, maintained regular contact with her mother and stepfather, held intermittent employment (including recent work as an administrative assistant in an immigration law office), and had earned a master’s degree in psychology.
Court records and family statements also indicate that Cisneros’s marriage had ended in divorce. Two of her three daughters lived in Florida with their father; the third, who is autistic and nonverbal, lived in a group home in Brooklyn. Relatives said Cisneros visited the child in Brooklyn and, until the week before the attack, regularly shared meals with her mother and stepfather. In the final week she stopped those visits. On the Saturday before August 31 she spoke by phone with her mother and reported that she was fine. Her father later recalled that in recent months she had expressed a desire not to depend on medication and had declined a ride to a scheduled appointment earlier in the year.
The November 2025 Facebook post has been examined in light of this history and the subsequent attack. Police characterized the stabbings as random. The post itself framed random stabbing as one example among many of social breakdown that Cisneros associated with end-times prophecy. It did not contain a threat, a plan, or a statement of personal intent. Commentators and reporting have noted the linguistic parallel between the phrase “stabbing others for no reason” and the official description of the Times Square incident as unprovoked. At the same time, the post was consistent with a pattern of extended religious writing that had appeared on her page in the preceding period.
@abcnews New York City police fatally shot an apparently emotionally disturbed woman after she allegedly stabbed two people in Times Square in a “random and unprovoked” attack on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The suspect, identified by police as 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens, was pronounced dead at a hospital. #nyc #crime #news #abcnews
No official investigative finding has declared the 2025 post a statement of motive. Family members have expressed shock and said they never knew Cisneros to be violent toward others before the afternoon of August 31. They have pointed to her medication routine and the possibility of disruption in treatment as an area of concern, while acknowledging they cannot explain the sudden violence. The post remains a piece of publicly available writing that preceded the attack by nine months and that, in retrospect, used language that later matched the nature of the incident as described by authorities.
Cisneros’s educational background, recent employment, periods of reported stability under treatment, family relationships, prior mental-health crises, divorce, and the content of her social media posts together form the documented public record of her life in the years leading up to August 31, 2026. The Facebook post of November 30, 2025, sits within that record as a lengthy religious reflection that included, among many other observations, a reference to people stabbing others without reason as a sign of diminished love and of the end times. The attack that followed months later was described by police as random. The investigations into both the stabbings and the officer-involved shooting continue, and the full body-worn camera footage has been identified as material that will eventually be released.
The available facts establish a timeline: long-term mental health struggles beginning with postpartum depression decades earlier, a divorce, periods of treatment and relative stability, increasing religious social media activity in 2025 that included the specific phrase about stabbing for no reason, a reported sense of well-being in the days immediately before the attack, and the sudden violence in Times Square. Whether the post represented a warning, a reflection of internal state, or simply one element in a larger pattern of writing remains a matter of interpretation rather than established official conclusion. The primary sources—the text of the post itself, the statements of family members, and the police account of the incident—provide the factual foundation for any further examination.
