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No one in courtroom to speak on behalf of victims of man who killed 4 sleeping homeless men
Jurors rejected Santos’s schizophrenia defense and found he targeted sleeping homeless men with a metal bar, prosecutors said.
- On Thursday, Judge Laura Ward sentenced Randy Santos to 40 years to life in prison for bludgeoning four homeless men to death with a metal bar in Manhattan's Chinatown nearly seven years ago.
- Santos, diagnosed with schizophrenia, believed he had to kill 40 people or die himself, according to his defense lawyers; this delusion drove him to attack sleeping victims with a 4-foot metal bar.
- Prosecutors presented surveillance footage showing Santos repeatedly lifting the bar and striking victims Florencio Moran Camano, Nazario Abdelardo Vsquez Villegas, Anthony Manson, and Chuen Kok; no family members appeared to deliver victim impact statements.
- Defense attorneys requested 20 years to life, claiming Santos is a "different person" on medication, yet Chinatown activist Karlin Chan dismissed his apology as performative after sentencing.
- Legal Aid Society attorneys Arnold Levine and Marnie Zien plan to appeal the sentence, while Judge Ward emphasized the case reflects the convergence of homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse plaguing the city.
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In October 2019, Randy Rodriguez Santos had beaten his four victims to death in their sleep. A fifth man had been seriously wounded.
Randy Rodriguez Santos, 31, was also living on the street when he beat the victims to death, targeting them while they slept.
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