Randy Santos’ attorneys had conceded that he pummeled the defenseless victims — Chuen Kok, Anthony Manson, Florencio Moran and Nazario Vásquez Villegas — with a metal bar and meant to kill them.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement that Santos “knowingly and purposefully” attacked strangers while they were sleeping.
“A jury determined that Randy Santos knowingly and purposefully murdered four men with a metal bar in the span of less than 30 minutes. They were strangers to him and simply happened to be sleeping on Chinatown sidewalks that horrific night,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. Jurors, who had deliberated for less than a day, declined to comment.
Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg today announced the indictment of 33-year-old Germaine Parham in connection with the January assault of a 14-year-old girl in Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village.
Germaine Parham, 33, was initially arrested back on Feb. 3 in upstate Amsterdam, where police had tracked him down following a lengthy investigation. Police said the suspect had 32 prior arrests on his rap sheet, many of them for robbery.
