The suspect went on a violent rampage truck with a U-Haul in Brooklyn and admitted to striking several people while driving.
Deadly Rampage Truck In Brooklyn 1 dead after U-Haul Truck Hits And Injures 9 People, Police Say (USNews.com)
Violent Rampage Truck In Brooklyn
Officers responded to a report of a man driving a U-Haul rampage truck in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn and striking pedestrians at 10:50 a.m., New York Police Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell informed reporters.
Authorities ultimately came upon the vehicle near the entrance of the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and brought the driver into custody. According to a police spokesperson that one victim died aged 44-year-old man, and eight others, including a police officer, were struck and injured. Their ages are between 30 to 66. The suspect identity is Weng Sor, 62-year-old, a man with a criminal record dating to 2005 in Clark County, Nevada. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Sor got himself a lawyer.
The van contained an Arizona license plate, said two senior law enforcement officials who were informed about the situation. Seven locations were being processed, Sewell expressed. Moreover, Sewell claimed that Monday evening two of the victims who were injured were in stable condition while the other two victims were in a life-threatening condition. Sewell also said that in Sor’s act, there is no motive nor any terrorist involvement in the incident.
The Rampage Truck Driver Has Criminal History
According to King5 news The Weng Sor was suffering from an apparent mental health crisis and began mowing people down after seeing an “invisible object” coming toward him, police said. Moreover, Sor’s criminal record in Nevada contains a 2015 case for felony battery and a citation last month for over speeding in the traffic limit. In the 2015 case, he was found guilty and convicted of one to three years in jail, according to records. He was also ordered to undergo a physiatric mental health evaluation. Sor’s criminal history includes arrests for driving while intoxicated and evading a police officer in 2002 and numerous instances of battery.
Sor, who is from Las Vegas and living with his mother, came to New York last week after spending time in Florida and was pulled over twice in the U-Haul in the days before the violent rampage truck attack, police said. Sor was led out from a police station and scheduled for arraignment on Tuesday or Wednesday. Court records show that no listed lawyer could comment on his behalf.
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