Mother of suspect in quadruple homeless homicide was terrified of her violent, drug-addled son
Fioraliza Rodriguez knew her homeless son was deeply troubled: He struggled with a drug habit, stole from the family, assaulted her and his grandfather.
The distraught mother still burst into tears Saturday after learning her deranged older boy was behind bars for the brutal bludgeoning deaths of four fellow homeless men during a bloody Chinatown rampage.
“Oh my God, oh my God!” she screamed in Spanish. “Lord help me! Oh my God!”
The 55-year-old Rodriguez told the Daily News that she never believed her son Randy, despite his myriad problems, could take someone’s life.
“I never thought he would kill someone,” she said.. “I was afraid of him, though, because he punched me. That’s when I told him to get out of my house.”
According to family members, Randy Rodriguez Santos started using drugs when he arrived in New York from their native Dominican Republic about four years ago. He soon turned violent, breaking his grandfather’s nose in a 2016 incident, and just last Monday slipped into the family home to steal a watch, a phone and three phone chargers.
His mom booted Randy from the house more than three years ago, but he remained a menacing presence popping in and out of their lives.
“When I told him to leave, he came back and threatened me,” she recounted. “He said when I go back to Santo Domingo, he’ll get people to cut my face.”
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The suspect’s kid brother Anthony, 16, said the siblings would talk when their paths crossed on the neighborhood streets. Anthony said Randy was waiting on the steps to the family home on Friday night when he returned around 8 p.m. from getting a haircut.
“I asked why he was here, and said, ‘You know Mommy doesn’t want you here,’” recounted Anthony. “He just asked for his jacket, because he said he was cold. And I said, ‘Yeah,’ and he just left.”
Six hours later, the NYPD was putting Randy in handcuffs after his arrest for the fatal beatings of four victims killed by a swinging metal pipe to their heads.
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