MAN HELD IN DEATHS OF HOMELESS MEN

NEW YORK New York police have charged a man with murder for using a metal pipe to beat four fellow homeless men to death as they slept in the city’s Chinatown district, authorities said on Sunday.

Randy Santos, 24, was charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of unlawful possession of marijuana, said a New York City Police Department spokesman.

Santos was taken into custody on Saturday after officers responded to a report of an attack and found the bodies of four victims in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighbourhood.

The suspect’s mother, Fioraliza Rodriguez, told the New York Daily News that she had kicked her son out of her house three years ago because he was addicted to drugs, assaulted her and his grandfather and stole from the family. “I never thought he would kill someone,” Rodriguez told the newspaper.