They were revealed Monday by prosecutors in the State Supreme Court
NEW YORK._ Chilling details about the murders of three homeless people and a Mexican worker who choired them in a block of Chinatown in Lower Manhattan, finalized with heavy metal bar by Dominican Randy RodrÃguez Santos, on October 5 , were revealed Monday by prosecutors in the State Supreme Court, during the formal investigation of dozens of charges to the defendant, who pleaded "not guilty."
Representatives of the Public Prosecution Service described how the killer struck the homeless and the Mexican while they were asleep and left two other graves.
The revelations were made at the arraignment of RodrÃguez Santos, where he pleaded not guilty to six counts of first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and assault in the first degree.
Dressed in an orange suit and handcuffed on his back, he sat stone-faced during the brief procedure.
Deputy Prosecutor Alfred Peterson said 24-year-old Santos deliberately stalked his inmates, seeing Anthony Mason, a homeless man sleeping in front of a shop on the 17th East Street and Broadway Avenue around 1:30 a.m. on October 5.
An unarmed Saint left, but looked for a heavy metal bar, returned and hit the homeless man on the head seven times, fracturing his skull and killing him.
His next stop was in front of building 2 East and Broadway, just 100 feet west of where he murdered his first victim, and there he found the other three homeless men sleeping, also hitting them seven times in the head.
He walked away, but returned to attack the three stunned tramps, attacking them three more times, murdering the Mexican Nazario Abelardo, Vázquez Villegas, the Mexican whose family says he was not homeless and an unidentified victim and seriously injuring the third Prosecutor Peterson said.
The bloody day seemed to come to an end, when Santos threw away his bloodied spotted weapon.
But the need to kill engulfed him once again after walking two blocks north to 2 Bowery Street and encountered another sleeping figure, the chinese elder Cheun Kok.
"Seeing that particular person, he came back, picked up the bar and crossed Bowery again," the assistant prosecutor said. "He started hitting him in the head."
Witnesses who saw Santos fatally beat Kok and called 911.
The deranged killer fled and the policemen patrolling the area saw him dragging the metal bar, dotted with locks of hair and blood, on his shoulder.
He was arrested and allegedly confessed and identified in a surveillance video where the last murder was recorded.
Prosecutors said that hours later, a detective from Barracks 10 linked Santos to an earlier attack on September 27, for which he was charged with attempted murder.
On that date, the defendant allegedly used an object to beat the homeless man who slept on a street in the Chelsea neighborhood, and then attempted to throw that victim into the Hudson River.
Santos is in a non-bonded prisoner at Bellevue Hospital.
His defense attorney Arnold Levine declined to comment.
"There may not be a population more vulnerable to violence than the growing number of homeless New Yorkers who lack a safe place to sleep," District Attorney Cyrus Vance Junior said in a statement.
"I offer my sincere condolences to the loved ones of the victims as our community begins to heal," the statement adds.
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