Erin Piacenti was 32 years old and had just returned to work after her maternity leave.
It was her first day at the Bank of America office in New York, on August 31, when a random attack in Times Square took her life.
The attacker, identified as 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros, also injured a 68-year-old man and was shot by police after refusing to drop the knives.
Erin leaves behind her husband Frank, to whom she had been married for two years, and Madison, their daughter, who was just 5 months old.
The family, who lived in Chester, New Jersey, started a GoFundMe campaign to secure the future of the baby girl Erin would not get to watch grow up. Within a few days, the amount surpassed $885 thousand dollars.
Thousands of people who had never met her decided that Madison would not face what lies ahead alone.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-erin-piacenti-supporting-madisons-future