{"id":139140,"date":"2026-02-19T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139140\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:10:08","slug":"man-found-guilty-of-murder-in-chinatown-bludgeoning-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139140\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty of murder in Chinatown bludgeoning deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man charged with beating four people to death as they slept on the streets of Chinatown in Manhattan in October 2019 has been found guilty of murder in all of their killings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Randy Santos, 31, was also found guilty of attempted murder for severely injuring two other men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At his trial, Santos\u2019 lawyers acknowledged he committed the crimes, but argued he was too mentally ill to be held criminally responsible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man charged with beating four people to death as they slept on the streets of Chinatown in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[10015,387,25,118,303,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-139140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-crime","9":"tag-app-public-safety","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-public-safety","21":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}