A deranged maniac who bludgeoned four homeless men to death during a grisly 2019 killing spree in Chinatown was found guilty of murder and other charges Thursday.
The jury needed just four hours to reach a verdict to convict madman Randy Santos, 31, who claimed he heard voices urging him to “kill 40 people” to “save his own life” before the pre-dawn attack on Oct. 5, 2019.
Santos bashed the vagrants’ skulls with a metal bar after he stopped taking schizophrenia medication and went off the rails, his lawyer, Legal Aid attorney Marnie Zien, said during his trial.
“It was real to Randy,” she said of the voices in her client’s head. “He needed the voices to stop, he needed to save his life and didn’t see another way out because of the schizophrenia.”…