Chuen Kok, 83, is identified as one of the four homeless victims bludgeoned to death with a metal rod as he slept on a Chinatown street

An 83-year-old man has been identified as one of the four homeless people bludgeoned to death with a metal rod as he slept on a Chinatown street

Chuen Kok, 83, has been remembered as a 'gentle' and 'kind' man.

Other homeless men in the neighborhood who knew Kok told The Associated Press he was quiet, kind and well-known to people in the neighborhood.

The city's medical examiner on Monday also identified two other victims, 55-year-old Nazario A. Vazquez Villegas and 49-year-old Anthony L. Manson. The identity of the fourth fatal victim is still unknown.

Stephen Miller, 28, said he would try to give him a pork bun every day, or as often as he could.

'This guy never did anything, just had a life to live. It sucks that he's out here in the rain and everything but it doesn't mean he doesn't have a life to live.'

Shirley Ng, 52, told the New York Post during a vigil in Chinatown that Kok was an immigrant from Hong Kong and only spoke Cantonese.

'He was a very gentle man. He never asked for anything. You'd talk to him - he was just a peaceful man,' Ng said.

'He was brutally attacked while just trying to sleep — something we all do. He died sleeping in hopes of waking up to see what lies ahead tomorrow,' she said.

The medical examiner said all four died of blunt impact head trauma with skull fractures and brain injury. A fifth man, David Hernandez, 49, was left in critical condition.

Randy Rodriguez Santos, 24, appeared in court for an arraignment Sunday after being taken into custody early Saturday morning following the bloody killing spree in Manhattan's Chinatown

Police said they found Santos carrying the metal bar he used to allegedly beat four homeless men to death and seriously injure another

Shirley Ng, 52, told the New York Post during a vigil in Chinatown that Kok was an immigrant from Hong Kong and only spoke Cantonese

Randy Rodriguez Santos, 24, appeared in court for an arraignment Sunday after being taken into custody early Saturday morning following the bloody killing spree in Manhattan's Chinatown.

'While he was in the 5th Precinct, he was shown video of the attacks and he admitted that he was the person in the video,' Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Alfred Peterson said.

Twenty-four-year-old Randy Santos was carrying a metal rod covered with blood and hair when he was arrested near the scene of the early Saturday attacks, prosecutors said.

This comes as horrifying surveillance video emerged showing Santos beating a sleeping man on a New York street.

Peterson revealed that Santos allegedly used a 3foot, 15pound piece of construction metal that was 'covered in blood and hair'

Police said they found Santos wandering the streets with the metal bar still in his hands soon after they responded to a 911 assault call.

The NYPD released this photo showing the piece of metal that Santos allegedly used to beat to death four sleeping homeless men early Saturday

Close ups of one of the crime scenes, showing blood spatter against a wall (left) and what appears to be a lock of hair (right)

Peterson didn't provide a motive for gruesome killings, but said that 'all of the people were sleeping' and his actions were 'unprovoked.

The chilling six-second surveillance video, obtained by U.S-Chinese newspaper World Journal, allegedly shows Santos using the metal bar to beat one of the men.

The attacks left blood splattered on the doorways and sidewalks where the men had been sleeping.

Santos, who has a history of violence and a lengthy arrest record, has since been charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and marijuana possession.

Two of the men were killed on The Bowery, which cuts through the heart of Chinatown and has for decades been known as New York's skid row. Two more died on East Broadway, the neighborhood's main street.

The lone known survivor was hospitalized in critical condition. Police planned to interview him as soon as possible.