Suspect of Brooklyn U-Haul rampage charged with murder, attempted murders

The suspect alleged to have been behind the wheel of a U-Haul truck that struck multiple people on and off the street in Brooklyn has been charged.

Police say Weng Sor, 62, a man with a significant violent criminal history in Nevada, has been charged with one count of second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder.

Police said at a press conference on Tuesday that after interviews with his family members and interrogation, they believe Sor was suffering from a mental health crisis.

Sor allegedly claimed that he started mowing down people after seeing an “invisible object” coming toward the truck and that when he saw it, he decided he’d “had enough.”

When he was captured by police, he allegedly yelled “You should’ve shot me!” at officers.

The NYPD announced Wednesday that Weng Sor, 62, a man with a history of mental illness and violent criminal incidents, has been charged with one count of second-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder after going on a rampage in a U-Haul truck in Brooklyn, striking pedestrians and killing one man.

According to NYPD officials, Sor, who lives with his mother in Las Vegas, traveled to West Palm Beach in Florida on February 1 to rent a U-Haul truck. On February 5th, while traveling through South Carolina, en route to New York, he was stopped for reckless driving and marijuana possession by the highway patrol.

“This isn’t the first time he’s been arrested. It’s not the first time he’s gone to jail.”