Bank of America VP Erin Piacenti Killed in Random Times Square Stabbing

In the heart of Times Square, one of the most surveilled intersections on earth, a young mother and accomplished attorney named Erin Piacenti was taken from the world in a moment of random violence that no density of cameras or officers could forestall. She was 32, newly returned to work, still carrying the warmth of a baptism and an anniversary. The woman who killed her had carried decades of untreated anguish, and both lives ended within minutes of each other on a September morning — leaving behind a grieving husband, an infant daughter, and a city forced once again to reckon with the gap be