Months Before Times Square, Pamela Cisneros Wrote About ‘Stabbing Others for No Reason’

MONTHS BEFORE TIMES SQUARE, PAMELA CISNEROS WROTE SOMETHING THAT NOW FEELS IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.

Nobody knew what was coming.

But months before the Times Square attack, Pamela Cisneros was posting increasingly disturbing messages online.

She wrote about the “end times.”

She wrote about people losing hope.

She wrote about people hearing voices telling them to hurt themselves or others.

And then came one line that is now haunting people who have gone back through her old posts:

“…stabbing others for no reason.”

At the time, it was buried inside a long, religion-focused post.

Nobody appears to have treated it as a warning.

Then Pamela allegedly walked into Times Square and attacked two complete strangers.

Was that post simply a disturbing observation about the world around her?

Or was it revealing something much closer to home?

Why was she writing about violence months before the attack?

And what else did Pamela post that people are only discovering now?

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Months Before Times Square, Pamela Cisneros Wrote About ‘Stabbing Others for No Reason’

Before Pamela Cisneros became the woman at the center of a deadly Times Square attack, she was leaving behind a very different kind of record — one made not in police reports, but on Facebook.

The 49-year-old Queens woman was fatally shot by NYPD officers on Aug. 31 after police said she stabbed two strangers in Manhattan, killing 32-year-old Bank of America executive Erin Piacenti and seriously injuring 68-year-old Tak Kam.

But after the attack, previously published Facebook posts attributed to Cisneros began circulating online.

One post, dated Nov. 30, 2025, has attracted particular attention.

It discussed religion, social decline and what Cisneros viewed as signs of the biblical “end times.” Buried within a lengthy list of problems she believed were unfolding around the world was a striking reference to people being driven to “stabbing others for no reason.”

Months later, Cisneros would allegedly stab two strangers without an apparent personal connection to either victim.

The coincidence has prompted intense discussion online.

But the question is not simply whether Cisneros somehow predicted what would happen.

There is no evidence establishing that.

The more difficult question is whether her posts offered a glimpse into a deteriorating state of mind that nobody understood at the time.

A post that looked different after the attack

According to reports examining Cisneros’ Facebook history, the Nov. 30 post was primarily religious.

She wrote about war, disease, earthquakes, homelessness, drug use, sex trafficking and what she described as persecution of Christians.

She connected those developments to what she believed were biblical warnings about the “end times.”

Then came the reference to random violence.

The wording was not presented as a threat.

It was included as part of a larger argument about the state of society.

That distinction is critical.

Nothing currently establishes that Cisneros was announcing an intention to attack someone. There is no known statement in the post saying that she planned to stab a stranger, nor is there evidence that she identified a future victim.

Yet after Aug. 31, readers naturally began looking at the passage differently.

The attack in Times Square was described by police as random and unprovoked. Cisneros allegedly first attacked 68-year-old Tak Kam near West 41st Street and Seventh Avenue before moving toward West 42nd Street, where she allegedly fatally stabbed Piacenti.

That makes the old reference particularly unsettling.

Not because it proves anything.

But because of how closely its language resembles the event that eventually unfolded.

Then there were the posts about hopelessness

The stabbing reference was not the only troubling material attributed to Cisneros.

In another religion-focused post, she reportedly asked why people could feel empty and eventually surrender to hopelessness.

She also wrote about people hearing voices that allegedly told them to kill someone or themselves, framing those experiences through her religious interpretation of good and evil.

Again, none of those posts by themselves establish what Cisneros intended or what was happening medically.

But taken alongside what relatives later revealed about her mental-health history, they have become part of a much larger picture.

Her brother, Patrick Peralta, said Cisneros had struggled with mental health for years and discussed a possible bipolar diagnosis. Her father also described a serious previous crisis, including a 2019 suicide attempt.

Police confirmed that Cisneros had previous mental-health-related encounters with the NYPD, including incidents dating to 2018 and 2019. She had no prior arrest record with the department, according to reporting.

Her family nevertheless said the Pamela they knew was not someone they considered violent.

That contradiction is at the heart of the mystery.

The woman her family thought was getting better

In interviews following the attack, Cisneros’ relatives described a woman whose final period looked very different from the one captured on video in Times Square.

Peralta said he last saw his sister on Aug. 10 at a family birthday gathering.

She had regularly visited their mother.

Then she stopped.

The family became concerned, but when they called, Pamela reportedly said she was fine.

Her father believed she had been doing better.

That is important because it complicates the temptation to view every disturbing Facebook post as an obvious countdown to violence.

If relatives who knew her personally did not see a clear warning in her final weeks, it becomes difficult to argue that strangers online should have been able to interpret a months-old religious post as a direct threat.

What those posts may show is something subtler: a person who had increasingly intense thoughts about religion, despair and violence.

Whether those thoughts were connected to the attack remains unknown.

The Internet started connecting the dots

Once the posts resurfaced, social-media users began reconstructing Cisneros’ final months.

On Reddit, discussions have focused not only on the attack itself but also on her mental state and the apparent contrast between her previous life and the behavior captured in Times Square. One widely discussed thread drew hundreds of votes and comments, with users debating everything from her psychological condition to the police response.

Other users have focused on the eerie wording of the old Facebook post.

The basic argument is easy to understand:

How could someone write about people being stabbed “for no reason” months before allegedly carrying out an apparently random stabbing herself?

But that question has several possible answers.

She may have been describing violence she believed was occurring in society.

She may have been expressing fears connected to her own psychological state.

The wording may have been coincidental.

Or the post could eventually prove to have been one piece of a much larger pattern.

At this stage, investigators have not publicly established which explanation is correct.

The post about hearing voices raises another question

Perhaps even more disturbing than the reference to stabbing was Cisneros’ discussion of people hearing voices telling them to hurt themselves or others.

That passage has drawn attention because relatives later described her longstanding mental-health struggles and previous suicide attempt.

But it is important not to make a leap that the evidence does not support.

Cisneros writing about people who hear voices does not prove that she herself was hearing voices.

Likewise, discussing suicidal behavior does not prove that she intended to die on Aug. 31.

The posts provide context, not a diagnosis.

That distinction becomes especially important as social-media theories continue to spread.

Did she know something was coming?

This is where the story becomes particularly compelling — and particularly easy to exaggerate.

Some online commenters have interpreted the posts almost as a prediction.

But there is a major difference between saying:

“She wrote something eerily similar months before the attack.”

and saying:

“She predicted that she would commit the attack.”

The first statement is supported by the published record.

The second is not.

There is currently no evidence that Cisneros wrote the posts with knowledge that she would later attack strangers in Times Square.

Nor has authorities announced a motive that would connect the Facebook posts directly to the stabbing.

Police have described the attack as random and unprovoked and have not identified a terrorism connection.

The strangest contrast may be hidden elsewhere on her Facebook page

Cisneros’ online history was not exclusively dark.

Reports examining her Facebook page also found older photographs showing her smiling with family and friends. One report highlighted a 2020 post in which she encouraged people to “Always be kind to strangers.”

That contrast is striking.

The same online profile that later contained posts about spiritual warfare, hopelessness and random violence also contained ordinary memories and messages about kindness.

It makes the story less like a simple progression from “normal” to “dangerous” and more like a complicated personal history that outsiders are now attempting to reconstruct after the fact.

A master’s degree in psychology adds another layer

Another detail emerging from reporting has attracted considerable online attention: Cisneros reportedly earned a master’s degree in psychology.

Her brother and a neighbor described her as educated and capable. Reporting has also said she worked at a law firm handling immigration-related matters.

That has led some social-media users to ask a striking question:

How could someone with an academic background in psychology become involved in such a catastrophic mental-health crisis?

But education does not make someone immune to mental illness.

Nor does studying psychology mean a person can necessarily recognize or control their own deterioration.

The detail is interesting because it complicates the public image of Cisneros, but it does not provide an explanation for the attack.

What happened between the posts and Times Square?

That remains the central unanswered question.

Cisneros’ Nov. 30, 2025 Facebook post came roughly nine months before the Times Square attack.

During that period, her family says she continued living her life. She had a complicated personal history, including a divorce whose case concluded in 2025, three daughters living separately and a longstanding struggle with mental health.

Then, shortly before the attack, relatives say she stopped visiting her mother.

That relatively small detail may ultimately be more important than the viral Facebook quote.

Because it provides a possible timeline of change.

Something may have happened between the woman her family believed was improving and the woman who appeared in Times Square with two knives.

What that “something” was has not been established.

The investigation is not over

Cisneros died after police confronted her following the stabbings.

According to the NYPD, officers spent approximately four minutes ordering her to drop the knives. She refused, threatened officers and advanced toward them. Tasers were used before two officers opened fire.

The police shooting itself is being investigated.

Body-camera footage and other evidence are expected to help establish exactly what happened during those final moments.

Meanwhile, investigators still have the larger unanswered question: why did Cisneros attack two strangers in the first place?

Her Facebook posts may eventually prove relevant.

They may also turn out to be nothing more than disturbing writings that acquired a new meaning after tragedy struck.

For now, the safest conclusion is also the most haunting.

Months before Times Square, Pamela Cisneros wrote about a world she believed was descending into violence and hopelessness.

She mentioned people being stabbed “for no reason.”

She wrote about voices telling people to harm themselves or others.

She became increasingly preoccupied with religion and the “end times.”

And months later, a seemingly random attack unfolded in the middle of Times Square.

Was she leaving clues about a crisis that was already unfolding inside her — or is the Internet simply connecting dots after the fact?

That is the question investigators, journalists and online sleuths are now left to confront.

And until more evidence emerges about Cisneros’ final weeks, there may be no easy answer.