HORRIFIC footage captures the moment a maniac beat a homeless man to death with a metal bar during a bloody murder spree in New York.
Randy Rodriguez Santos has admitted killing four homeless men and critically wounding a fifth as they slept in Manhattan’s Chinatown.
The 24-year-old was carrying a three-foot metal bar covered with blood and hair when he was arrested near the scene of the killings early Saturday morning.
Santos appeared in court yesterday, arraigned on charges of murder and attempted murder.
Prosecutors said he was shown video of one of the attacks while being interrogated by cops – and admitted he was the person bludgeoning the sleeping man to death.
Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Alfred Peterson told the court: “He [Santos] was shown video of the attacks and he admitted that he was the person in the video.”
Peterson revealed Santos allegedly used a three-foot, 15lb length of construction metal that was “covered with blood and hair”.
Police said they found Santos wandering the streets with the metal bar still in his hands soon after they responded to a 911 assault call.
A source told the New York Post: “The way he [Santos] was walking, it looked like he was looking for more victims.”
All the people were sleeping
Randy Rodriguez Santos
Peterson didn’t provide a motive for the orgy of violence, but said that “all of the people were sleeping” and his actions were “unprovoked”.
The chilling six-second CCTV footage, obtained by US-Chinese newspaper World Journal, allegedly shows Santos beating one of the men to death.
Santos, who has a history of violence and a lengthy arrest record, underwent a psychiatric evaluation after his arrest, police said.
According to The Post, Santos has been living in an abandoned building in the Bronx since his family kicked him out of their apartment next door.
The suspect’s mother, Fioraliza Rodriguez, 55, told the New York Daily News she had kicked him out about three years ago.
She told the publication: “I never thought he would kill someone. I was afraid of him, though, because he punched me. That’s when I told him to get out of my house.
“When I told him to leave, he came back and threatened me. He said when I go back to Santo Domingo, he’ll get people to cut my face.”
Police found one man dead in the street and a second with critical head injuries.
A further search of the neighbourhood turned up three more bodies.
Cheun Kok, 83, was among those killed as he slept at the intersection of Bowery and Doyers streets.
The identities of the other victims have not been released.
Two of the men were killed on The Bowery, known as New York’s Skid Row.
The other two victims died on East Broadway.
Court-appointed defence lawyer Arnold Levine didn’t seek bail, and Judge James Clynes ordered Santos jailed pending another hearing on Friday.
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