New York City police gunned down a woman who had attacked random strangers with a knife in Times Square on Monday.
Cellphone video captured the moment that police surrounded the woman, who lunged at them while armed with two knives.
Police were able to recover two knives at the scene.
Police said the 49-year-old woman began the “unprovoked and random” knife attack on strangers near 41st Street and Seventh Avenue.
She allegedly stabbed a 68-year-old man in his abdomen as the victim walked out of the subway with his wife. He was hospitalized for treatment of his injuries.
A second victim was identified as 32-year-old Erin Piacenti of Chester, New Jersey, who died of her injuries.
Witnesses flagged down officers who confronted the woman for about four minutes.
The officers “gave her
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