{"id":139247,"date":"2026-02-19T21:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139247\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:31:08","slug":"man-who-killed-4-homeless-people-in-manhattan-convicted-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139247\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who killed 4 homeless people in Manhattan convicted of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"zbfgr\">A man with schizophrenia who killed four homeless people and injured two others in 2019 knew what he was doing and should be held criminally responsible for his actions, a Manhattan jury decided Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fal6t\">The jurors convicted Randy Santos of all the charges against him, including first-degree murder, after less than a day of deliberations. Santos\u2019 defense attorneys had argued at trial that he should not be found guilty because of his mental illness.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"709p9\">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement that Santos \u201cknowingly and purposefully\u201d attacked strangers while they were sleeping.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"e94m0\">\u201cNow, he has been held accountable for his crimes,\u201d Bragg said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ct6us\">A spokesperson for Santos\u2019 defense attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"botqm\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man with schizophrenia who killed four homeless people and injured two others in 2019 knew what he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-139247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139247","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=139247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}