US EditionMan who beat 4 people to death on NYC streets heard voices telling him to kill, lawyer says
Randy Santos faces life imprisonment or psychiatric treatment after killing four homeless men in a 2019 Manhattan attack amid claims of schizophrenia and hearing voices.
- Randy Santos, 31, is on trial in Manhattan state court, asserting an insanity defense after attacking five men with a 4-foot metal bar on Oct. 5, 2019.
- His lawyers say Santos was diagnosed with schizophrenia months earlier and was hearing voices ordering him to kill 40 people, and records show he left jail with treatment referrals and prescriptions but never used them.
- Prosecutors showed surveillance video of Santos repeatedly lifting the bar over one victim, noting he paused for a witness and had done a `trial run`; police found his DNA and victims' blood on the bar and cited at least six prior arrests.
- A successful insanity defense could send Santos to a psychiatric treatment facility, while jurors' decision will determine if he faces life in prison or involuntary commitment.
- The case tests New York's challenging insanity-defense landscape, with mixed results, echoing the 2022 Times Square driver case and drawing attention through mourners and a small memorial in Chinatown amid 319 NYC killings in 2019.
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Man who beat 4 people to death on NYC streets heard voices telling him to kill, lawyer says
A man on trial for bludgeoning four men to death with a metal bar as they slept on the New York City streets had been diagnosed with schizophrenia when he left jail months earlier and was hearing voices telling him he needed to kill 40 people or he would die too.
Man accused of killing 4 homeless men heard voices telling him to ‘kill 40 people’ or die — as NYC trial finally gets underway
Attorneys for Randy Santos, 31 — who allegedly went on a predawn murder spree brutally bashing the skulls of four sleeping men in Chinatown with a scavenged metal bar on Oct. 5, 2019 — claim the sicko was off his schizophrenia medication when voices instructed him to kill or be killed.
A man who is being tried for beating four men with a metal bar while sleeping on the streets of New York City had been diagnosed with schizophrenia months before he got out of jail and heard voices telling him that he had to kill 40 people or he too would die, as his lawyer told the jury on Tuesday. (Keep reading...) The chilling revelation in New York's trial of Dominican serial killer was first published in Remolacha - Dominican Republic News.
NEW YORK — A man who is being tried for beating four men with a metal bar while sleeping on the streets of New York City had been diagnosed with schizophrenia months before he got out of jail and heard voices telling him that he had to kill 40 people or he would also die, according to his lawyer before the jury on Tuesday. Randy Santos, 31, claims insanity in his trial in a Manhattan state court. Through his lawyers, he has acknowledged that he …
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