There was no one in the courtroom on Thursday to speak on behalf of the four men Randy Santos bludgeoned to death with a metal bar as they slept on New York City\u2019s Chinatown streets.<\/p>\n
No anguished friends or relatives to tell the judge about Chuen Kok, Florencio Moran, Nazario Vasquez Villegas and Anthony Manson\u2019s abruptly shortened lives. No one to confront Santos face-to-face about his psychosis-fuelled rampage through Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown neighbourhood nearly seven years ago, or to hear him apologise.<\/p>\n
No one to see him sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n
Eighty-three-year-old Kok, \u2013 the oldest victim and an immigrant from Hong Kong \u2013 was a former restaurant worker who had lost his bearings after his wife died and his church closed.<\/p>\n
Manson, 49, helped establish a Pentecostal church in Mississippi years ago and later made videos and blogged about his thoughts on Scripture, psychology and societal issues.<\/p>\n
Vasquez Villegas, 55, was a factory worker whose family said he had a home on Staten Island and just apparently fell asleep in Chinatown, where he liked to pass the time with friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no one in the courtroom on Thursday to speak on behalf of the four men Randy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":828562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,340142,32457,340144,340143,340150,340147,340148,5249,340141,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,340145,1185,340146,340149,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,19289],"class_list":["post-828561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-anthony-manson","tag-chinatown","tag-chuen-kok","tag-david-hernandez","tag-florencio-moran","tag-judge-laura-a-ward","tag-karlin-chan","tag-manhattan","tag-nazario-vasquez-villegas","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-randy-santos","tag-schizophrenia","tag-sentenced-to-40-years-to-life-in-prison","tag-the-lone-survivor","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-violent-crime"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116654231415108262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}