A man accused of bludgeoning four people to death in a horrific killing spree in New York City claimed he heard voices urging him to “kill 40 people” to “save his own life” as his trial got underway.
Randy Santos, 31, allegedly bashed the skulls of four men sleeping on the streets of Manhattan’s Chinatown in October 2019. Officers responding to a 911 call about the October 5 attack found Santos carrying a metal pipe covered with blood and hair near Mulberry Street and Canal Street, police said.
The dead ranged in age from 39 to 83, and three of them were part of a New York City homeless population. Santos had been diagnosed with schizophrenia months before the attacks and was off his medication at the time, jurors heard at his trial on Tuesday…