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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jennifer Peltz

Jurors deliberations to start in trial over killings of 4 men as they slept on NYC streets

Homeless Killings New York - (Rashid Umar Abbasi)

Jurors are set to start deliberating Thursday in the trial of a man who beat four people to death as they slept on New York City's streets. His lawyers acknowledge he did it but argue he was too mentally ill to be held criminally responsible.

Randy Santos, 31, was arrested with a bloody metal bar in his hands shortly after the October 2019 rampage. It spurred scrutiny of the city's struggles to aid and protect a homeless population that had reached record size.

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