CARNAGE

U-Haul Truck Rampage Leaves 1 Dead, 8 Injured in Brooklyn

Weng Sor, 62, was arrested after the hour-long ordeal.

A man has been arrested after one person was killed and eight more were injured when a U-Haul truck jumped the curb and smashed into multiple people in Brooklyn on Monday night. The carnage began in the neighborhood of Bay Ridge, when the suspect struck at least three people riding mopeds and then a pedestrian. The driver then took off at high speed down the Gowanus Parkway and led police on a 30-minute chase before finally being apprehended in neighboring Red Hook. Weng Sor, the 62-year-old suspect who may have been living out of the truck, had no criminal record but did have a mental health-related interaction with police in 2019, according to the New York Post. “The police approached this driver and tried to get him to pull over and at that time he said something to the effect of ‘I want to die’ and proceeded to start driving on the sidewalks in Bay Ridge,” New York City Councilmember Justin Brannan, who represents Bay Ridge, told ABC7 New York. The NYPD said the incident was “not terror-related.”