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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael R. Sisak

No one in courtroom to speak on behalf of victims of man who killed 4 sleeping homeless men

Homeless Killings New York - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

There was no one in the courtroom on Thursday to speak on behalf of the four men Randy Santos bludgeoned to death with a metal bar as they slept on the New York City streets.

No anguished friends or relatives to tell the judge about Florencio Moran, Nazario Vásquez Villegas, Anthony Manson and Chuen Kok ’s abruptly shortened lives. No one to confront Santos face-to-face about his psychosis-fueled rampage through Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood nearly seven years ago, or to hear him apologize.

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