Alvin Bragg is the 37th District Attorney elected in Manhattan. Alvin – a lifelong Manhattanite who served as a state and federal prosecutor – has spent more than two decades fighting to make our communities safer and our criminal justice system fairer.
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Man found guilty of murder in beating deaths of four homeless men
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.
Man who killed 4 homeless people in Manhattan convicted of murder
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement that Santos “knowingly and purposefully” attacked strangers while they were sleeping.
Jury convicts man in killings of 4 people sleeping on NYC streets, rejecting insanity defense
“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.
Indictment announced in January rape in Stuyvesant Town
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.
Manhattan rape case: Suspect indicted for predatory sexual assault of teen girl in Stuyvesant Town building
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.
Statement From Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on the Trial Conviction of Randy Santos
Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, Jr., said: “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. Two additional victims were injured in Santos’s brutal attacks. Now, he has been held accountable for his crimes. I thank my office’s prosecutors for ensuring justice for Florencio Moran, Nazario Vásquez Villegas, Anthony Manson and Chuen Kok, as well as the two other men who, thankfully, survived.”
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