{"id":45166,"date":"2019-10-06T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45166"},"modified":"2019-10-06T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:08:36","slug":"us-four-homeless-men-killed-in-new-york-city-overnight-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45166","title":{"rendered":"US: Four homeless men killed in New York City overnight rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NEW YORK, Oct 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A homeless man wielding a long metal pipe rampaged through New York City early Saturday attacking other homeless people who were sleeping, killing four and leaving a fifth in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief of Manhattan South Detectives Michael Baldassano said at a news conference that the men were attacked at random in the city\u2019s Chinatown neighborhood with the object that authorities recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police responded to a 911 call just before 2 a.m. as one assault was in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A 24-year-old suspect was in custody but has yet to be charged, the detective said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief said the suspect is homeless and that his actions appear to have been \u201crandom attacks\u201d rather than motivated by race or age. He said police recovered a metal pipe that was still in the suspect\u2019s hands when he was arrested after fleeing the scene of the last attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was described as wearing a black jacket and black pants that helped police find him quickly and arrest him on a nearby street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victims were attacked in three different locations. The first died of blunt trauma to the head. A second man was attacked nearby but survived. He was taken to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other three victims, attacked about a block away, also died of trauma to the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Post published photos of two of the victims under a white sheet, one slumped in a blood-spattered doorway. The other lay under a sheet on the sidewalk. The identities of the victims have not been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baldassano said police were searching the neighborhood street by street Saturday morning for any other possible victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York City\u2019s homeless population has grown in recent years, to a great extent because of the lack of affordable housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The killings started on The Bowery, which cuts through Chinatown and has for decades been known as New York\u2019s skid row, inhabited by homeless addicts and alcoholics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the day, the neighborhood is bustling with small businesses and street vendors offering discount goods, its sidewalks packed with pedestrians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late at night, when the shops close, it turns into a quiet, desolate neighborhood that was the setting for Saturday\u2019s attacks. — NNN-AGENCIES
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