One of nine injured victims of Brooklyn U-Haul rampage dies

One of the victims of the driver of a rented U-Haul truck has died following the Monday morning rampage that left at least nine injured. Investigators are still attempting to determine the motive behind the Monday morning mow-down of multiple people in Brooklyn. The driver was 62-year-old Weng Sor (pictured center), born in Malaysia, who told police on the scene yesterday to ‘shoot me.’ He is now in police custody.

Although the motive is still being worked out, the NYPD commissioner Keechant Sewell said that no evidence currently suggests that any terrorism as involved, and that the series of hit-and-runs was a ‘violent rampage.’

The victim who died was a 44-year-old man, according to law enforcement officials. One of the other victims suffered critical injuries. At the time of his arrest, Sor said that he ‘only ran over bad people – not good people.’

All of the victims, including an NYPD officer, were transported to NYC Langone in Brooklyn. Officials noted that the driver was off medications he should have been taking, though it is unclear for what they were prescribed. Police tracked the driver’s rampage back to Bay Ridge, where he began his spree, before he continued north into Sunset Park.

He was eventually apprehended in Red Hook, closer to the East River. The entire episode took just over an hour, beginning at about quarter after ten on Monday.

Sor’s son, Stephen Sor, said that his father had a history of mental illness, and until recently, resided in Las Vegas, Nevada, where records show he has been convicted and served time of multiple criminal acts of violence. ‘Very frequently he’ll choose to skip out on his medications and do something like this,’ said Stephen Sor, 30, in an interview with AP outside his Brooklyn home. This isn’t the first time he’s been arrested. It’s not the first time he’s gone to jail.’

Court records show Sor was sentenced to one to three years in a Nevada prison for stabbing his brother in Las Vegas in 2015. The son said his father had been living in Las Vegas with his own mother, and they did not communicate frequently.

He said he was shocked when his father showed up in Brooklyn about a week ago, in the middle of the night. Records indicate he had rented the U-Haul truck late last month in Florida and driven up the coast. Relatives described the perpetrator as disturbed but not radicalized.

Though a motive remains unclear, the New York City mayor’s office issued a statement Monday to assure the public that there are no ongoing credible threats following Sor’s arrest.

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