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The killer first struck just before 2 a. m . on Saturday on a quiet spot on East Broadway in Chinatown , sneaking up on three homeless men as they slept on a sidewalk and bludgeoning them to death with a rusty, three-foot metal bar, the police said.
The city medical examiner released the final body in the Chinatown homeless massacre from the city morgue, where it was kept for seven weeks as authorities searched for the victim ’s family. The ME’s office and Mexican Consulate found Florencio Moran’s kin in his native Mexico, and they signed
Authorities have finally identified the last victim of October’s horrific massacre in Chinatown that took the lives of four homeless men.

Florencio Moran Camano, 39, will be buried in Mexico, officials said Saturday. He was officially identified earlier this week after investigators found his brother.
Moran remained unidentified for weeks following the Oct. 5 bloodbath because he had no identification on him when he was found sprawled out on the sidewalk on E. Broadway near Catherine St.
His attacker, identified by cops as Randy Santos, so mangled his face and head that a visual identification was difficult, said authorities.
What the Suspect in the Chinatown Murders Says He Remembers From That Night
Randy Santos says he remembers walking through Chinatown at 2 a.m. looking for cans and bottles to get the deposit money. He remembers police officers motioning him to stop. He remembers feeling perplexed when they handcuffed him. He claims he cannot recall bludgeoning four men to death with a piece of metal. “I was looking for bottles for cash,” Mr. Santos said in an interview at Rikers Island, where he was jailed awaiting trial for murder. “I needed the money because I was living on the streets and at an abandoned building. That’s all I remember.”Sign Up For the Morning Briefing NewsletterMr.
The suspect in Saturday's fatal attacks on sleeping homeless men in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood has been charged with four counts of murder, according to NYPD Detective Ahmed Nasser.
4 homeless men were killed in New York City 's Chinatown area, apparently while they slept Officers found the victims early Saturday in three locations in or near Chinatown after someone called 911 to Two witnesses told police they saw a man in a black jacket and black pants strike someone
Earlier this month, detectives finally figured out Moran’s name, and reached out to his family, who made the final identification.
Moran was sleeping on the street with two other homeless men when Santos, who was himself homeless, bludgeoned them with a metal pipe during the unprovoked early morning attack, officials said.
Also found dead at the scene were Anthony Manson, 49, and Nazario A. Vazquez Villegas, 55, cops said.
A few minutes earlier, Chuen Kwok, 83, was found beaten to death nearby, in front of a building on Bowery near Doyers St., cops said. A fifth homeless man, 49, survived the attack.
When police arrested Santos near the intersection of Mulberry and Canal streets — about a half-mile from the crime scenes — he carried a pipe covered in blood and hair, said authorities.
Their brutal slayings brought attention to the problems of homelessness and mental illness in the city.
Santos was indicted for an eerily similar attack a few days earlier, on Sept. 27, near Chelsea Piers. According to the Manhattan district attorney’s office, Santos attacked a man sleeping on a bench near the Hudson River outside the complex by hitting him on the head and trying to toss him over a railing and into the water.
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Four people are dead and another is in critical condition after a brutal attack on homeless men on the streets of New York City's Chinatown, Saturday, October 5.
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A homeless man was taken into custody after four other sleeping homeless men were beaten to death with a metal pipe overnight in Chinatown, authorities said.
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