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U.S. NEWS Monday 7 october 2019
Homeless man arraigned for

beating deaths in Chinatown

By REBECCA GIBIAN natown. He did not enter a long metal object. Santos
Associated Press plea and was ordered held underwent a psychiatric
NEW YORK (AP) — A home- without bail. evaluation after his arrest,
less man who used a metal A fifth homeless man who police said.
rod to bludgeon four other was injured in the attacks Santos used a Spanish inter-
homeless men to death in remained hospitalized in preter in court. His defense
New York City was arrested critical condition Sunday. team did not comment. He
holding the murder weap- The 24-year-old Santos was is due back in court Oct.
on covered with blood and carrying a metal rod cov- 11.
hair and admitted that he ered with blood and hair The attacks left blood splat-
was the person in a video when he was arrested near tered on the doorways and Police officers escort Randy Rodriguez Santos from the 5th
of one of the attacks, pros- the scene of the attacks, sidewalks where the men Precinct to a vehicle bound for a hospital for evidence
ecutors said Sunday. prosecutors said. had been sleeping. collection, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, in New York.
Randy Santos was ar- They said Santos was shown The area where the ram- Associated Press
raigned on charges of mur- video of one of the attacks page occurred includes tative said. Police identi- since his arrival to the Unit-
der and attempted murder while being interrogated the Bowery, which has long fied one of the victims as ed States from the Domini-
for the bloody rampage by police and he acknowl- been a location where an 83-year-old man and can Republic several years
that happened early Sat- edged that he was the those living on the streets haven’t released other in- ago.
urday in Manhattan’s Chi- person in the video with a have made their nighttime formation on the victims His mother, Fioraliza Rodri-
resting area. yet. guez, 55, told the paper she
Former President Jimmy The city Department of So- Santos has been arrested had kicked him out of her
cial Services said the area at least six other times in the home about three years
Carter ‘feels fine’ after fall is canvassed twice a week past two years, three times ago after he assaulted her.
But while she said she had
homeless
by
outreach on assault charges.
workers. The department Santos’ relatives told The been afraid of him, she
will increase the frequency New York Daily News he said she “never thought he
of the visits, a represen- had a history of drug use would kill someone.”q

In this Sept. 18, 2019, file photo, Former President Jimmy Carter
answers questions submitted by students during an annual
Carter Town Hall held at Emory University in Atlanta.
Associated Press
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Former Bush as the longest-lived
President Jimmy Carter U.S. president in history this
fell Sunday at his home spring. He has had some
in Georgia and needed trouble walking after a hip
some stitches above his replacement in May, but
brow, but “feels fine,” his regularly teaches Sunday
spokeswoman said. School. Meanwhile, he has
Deanna Congileo said in continued with his humani-
an email that the 39th pres- tarian work. And he also has
ident fell Sunday in Plains, occasionally weighed in on
Georgia, and received politics and policy, recently
stitches. Carter turned 95 expressing hopes that his
on Tuesday, becoming the Carter Center will become
first U.S. president to reach a more forceful advocate
that milestone. against armed conflicts in
Congileo said Carter and the future, including “wars
his wife, Rosalynn, who is by the United States.”
92, were eager to be at a “We have been at war
Habitat for Humanity build more than 226 years. We
in Nashville, Tennessee. The have been at peace for
opening ceremony for the about 16 years” since the
project was scheduled for Declaration of Indepen-
Sunday evening and it runs dence in 1776, he said,
through Friday. adding that every U.S. mili-
Carter survived a dire can- tary conflict from the Kore-
cer diagnosis in 2015 and an War onward has been a
surpassed George H.W. war of “choice.”q