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Times Square Tragedy Victim’s Family Releases Emotional Statement After Her Death – Here’s What They Said
Her Brother Says the Family Never Expected Violence
Cisneros’ brother, Patrick Peralta, spoke about his sister’s history and her final years in a separate Daily News interview. Peralta said his sister had dealt with mental-health problems for approximately two decades, including multiple hospitalizations, post-partum depression, and the 2019 suicide attempt with the subway-track incident.
But he insisted that what happened in Times Square was unlike anything he had known her to do before. “I don’t know what was in her head,” Peralta said. “I can’t tell you what she was thinking or if she just completely went blank. I don’t know where that rage came from.”
Peralta remembered his younger sister very differently from the images that later circulated from Times Square. “She was a happy-go-lucky kid,” he recalled. He said her mental-health difficulties developed after she gave birth to the second of her three daughters. “She went off track after that,” he said.
According to Peralta, Cisneros had been hospitalized several times and received psychiatric treatment. He said she had previously taken medication through monthly injections because she struggled to consistently take daily medication.
“For the last six years now, she was getting injections and nothing was wrong,” he said. “As long as she got the medication, she was fine.” Peralta also noted he had recently learned that Cisneros had begun administering the injections herself.
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He therefore wondered whether she had missed doses, though that was his speculation and has not been established as the cause of the attack. Cisneros had reportedly lived alone in Woodside and had been out of work before securing a job approximately three months earlier as an administrative assistant for a lawyer.
Her family had also noticed something unusual shortly before the incident. Peralta said Cisneros normally ate dinner with their parents almost every evening, but she did not show up during the week before the attack, prompting relatives to call and check on her.