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U-Haul ‘rampage’ as driver plows into New Yorkers, tells cops: ‘Shoot me. I’m not stopping’
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Craig McCarthy,
Larry Celona,
Tina Moore,
Reuven Fenton and
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
February 13, 2023 11:31am
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“Shoot me. I’m not stopping” the unhinged driver shouted at cops who tried to pull him over after he’d left a trail of victims in his wake, leading to a high-speed chase that veered onto sidewalks at times, sources said.
Senior law enforcement sources identified the suspected driver as Weng Sor, a 62-year-old man with no prior arrests but a history of mental illness.
Two of the victims were listed in critical condition, two in serious condition and four suffered minor injuries, according to the FDNY.
After Sor was taken into custody, following a 30-minute chase, he told the officers he “wanted to die,” sources said.
The maniac driver first hit at least one person riding a moped near Fifth Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway in Bay Ridge around 11 a.m. before speeding off as cops followed, according to police.
He then rammed into seven other people — including the police officer, who suffered minor injuries — at six other locations heading north from Bay Ridge into Sunset Park, until he was finally stopped in Red Hook, cops said.
“Behind us is a U-Haul truck stopped successfully by the NYPD, ending a violent rampage through Brooklyn that left at least eight people injured,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said during a news briefing.
“We know a very limited amount about the suspect at this time. That’s part of our investigation,” she said.
“There are approximately seven scenes that we have to process at this time,” Sewell continued. “The preliminary information is that the U-Haul struck people first and then we engaged after that.”
Police arrest the U-Haul truck driver.
A shocking surveillance video obtained by The Post shows the truck smash into the back of a moped — spinning the bike around and sending the driver to the ground — before jumping a curb and plowing through bikes left on the corner of 72nd Street and Third Avenue.
A pedestrian can be seen diving to avoid the U-Haul as an NYPD cruiser jumps onto the sidewalk in pursuit.
The driver sped off down Fourth Avenue — and rammed into a pedestrian, police said.
At least two other moped drivers were hit during the chase.
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The truck hit at least three people riding mopeds.Paul Martinka
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The truck then jumped on the Gowanus Expressway, where cops caught up to him about 30 minutes later and nearly three miles away at Columbia Street and Hamilton Avenue in Red Hook, the NYPD said.
The driver was taken into custody on pending charges, police sources said.
The incident appeared random, according to the sources, who said cops were probing whether the driver was homeless and living out of the truck.
Cops gave him two tickets for traffic infractions on the Belt Expressway in that same truck just this month, according to the sources.
He also had one prior run-in with cops for a mental health call in 2019, the sources said. In that case, he was seen yelling and jumping into moving traffic on a street in Queens and taken to a local hospital for psychiatric evaluation, the sources added.
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Police sources said the van was rented out of Florida in January, but no information about the driver or his motive has been released by the NYPD.
“The truck was flying, way too fast, and hit the guy and he went down,” said eyewitness Rua Bishara. “Then it drove over him. It was horrible. The guy looked like he was dead. He was surrounded by people and he wasn’t moving.”
A retired Suffolk County cop who saw the mayhem called it “crazy.”
“The truck was coming down Bay Ridge Parkway and blew the light and smashed right into a scooter driver who is running in from Fifth,” the ex-cop said. “He drove right over the guy, dragged him from the corner to the second tree … It was crazy.”
Another witness, Kida Rexhepi, whose family owns M&G Hair Salon on Third Avenue, told The Post, “It all happened so fast, it was like a tornado gone by, and when it was done, everyone came running to see what happened.”
The pedestrian struck on Fourth Avenue, a man in his 30s, was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where he was fighting for his life in critical condition, police said.
Another victim was also in critical condition at Lutheran and a third was listed in serious condition, according to an FDNY spokesperson.
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Two others who were struck were taken to Maimonides Medical Center, one with serious injuries.
An NYPD spokesperson said the incident was not believed to be terror-related.
“Mayor [Eric] Adams has been briefed and has been following developments regarding the U-Haul truck that struck multiple pedestrians this a.m. in Brooklyn,” a City Hall spokesman said.
New York City Councilman Justin Brennan, whose district covers Bay Ridge, said it was unclear what sparked the rampage.
“We have no idea of motives at this time but this wasn’t an accident,” he wrote.
The U-Haul was being searched by the NYPD’s bomb squad as a precaution following the arrest, a Post reporter observed and sources said.
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The bomb squad later cleared the truck after finding some bottles of laundry detergent powder in the back, according to the sources.
The harrowing incident coincided with the start of the death penalty phase of Islamic extremist Sayfullo Saipov’s trial in Manhattan federal court. The ISIS-inspired terrorist fatally ran down eight people with a rented Home Depot truck off the West Side Highway on Oct. 31, 2017.
“That was the first thing that came to mind when I heard about the rented truck,” said former NYPD Chief of Detectives and ABC News contributor Robert Boyce, who worked the Saipov case.
“It’s difficult to link the two right now, but how can you not think about that?”
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U-Haul ‘rampage’ as driver plows into New Yorkers, tells cops: ‘Shoot me. I’m not stopping’
By
Joe Marino,
Craig McCarthy,
Larry Celona,
Tina Moore,
Reuven Fenton and
Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
February 13, 2023 11:31am
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“Shoot me. I’m not stopping” the unhinged driver shouted at cops who tried to pull him over after he’d left a trail of victims in his wake, leading to a high-speed chase that veered onto sidewalks at times, sources said.
Senior law enforcement sources identified the suspected driver as Weng Sor, a 62-year-old man with no prior arrests but a history of mental illness.
Two of the victims were listed in critical condition, two in serious condition and four suffered minor injuries, according to the FDNY.
After Sor was taken into custody, following a 30-minute chase, he told the officers he “wanted to die,” sources said.
The maniac driver first hit at least one person riding a moped near Fifth Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway in Bay Ridge around 11 a.m. before speeding off as cops followed, according to police.
He then rammed into seven other people — including the police officer, who suffered minor injuries — at six other locations heading north from Bay Ridge into Sunset Park, until he was finally stopped in Red Hook, cops said.
“Behind us is a U-Haul truck stopped successfully by the NYPD, ending a violent rampage through Brooklyn that left at least eight people injured,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said during a news briefing.
“We know a very limited amount about the suspect at this time. That’s part of our investigation,” she said.
“There are approximately seven scenes that we have to process at this time,” Sewell continued. “The preliminary information is that the U-Haul struck people first and then we engaged after that.”
Police arrest the U-Haul truck driver.A shocking surveillance video obtained by The Post shows the truck smash into the back of a moped — spinning the bike around and sending the driver to the ground — before jumping a curb and plowing through bikes left on the corner of 72nd Street and Third Avenue.
A pedestrian can be seen diving to avoid the U-Haul as an NYPD cruiser jumps onto the sidewalk in pursuit.
The driver sped off down Fourth Avenue — and rammed into a pedestrian, police said.
At least two other moped drivers were hit during the chase.
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The truck then jumped on the Gowanus Expressway, where cops caught up to him about 30 minutes later and nearly three miles away at Columbia Street and Hamilton Avenue in Red Hook, the NYPD said.
The driver was taken into custody on pending charges, police sources said.
The incident appeared random, according to the sources, who said cops were probing whether the driver was homeless and living out of the truck.
Cops gave him two tickets for traffic infractions on the Belt Expressway in that same truck just this month, according to the sources.
He also had one prior run-in with cops for a mental health call in 2019, the sources said. In that case, he was seen yelling and jumping into moving traffic on a street in Queens and taken to a local hospital for psychiatric evaluation, the sources added.
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Police sources said the van was rented out of Florida in January, but no information about the driver or his motive has been released by the NYPD.
“The truck was flying, way too fast, and hit the guy and he went down,” said eyewitness Rua Bishara. “Then it drove over him. It was horrible. The guy looked like he was dead. He was surrounded by people and he wasn’t moving.”
A retired Suffolk County cop who saw the mayhem called it “crazy.”
“The truck was coming down Bay Ridge Parkway and blew the light and smashed right into a scooter driver who is running in from Fifth,” the ex-cop said. “He drove right over the guy, dragged him from the corner to the second tree … It was crazy.”
Another witness, Kida Rexhepi, whose family owns M&G Hair Salon on Third Avenue, told The Post, “It all happened so fast, it was like a tornado gone by, and when it was done, everyone came running to see what happened.”
The pedestrian struck on Fourth Avenue, a man in his 30s, was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where he was fighting for his life in critical condition, police said.
Another victim was also in critical condition at Lutheran and a third was listed in serious condition, according to an FDNY spokesperson.
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Two others who were struck were taken to Maimonides Medical Center, one with serious injuries.
An NYPD spokesperson said the incident was not believed to be terror-related.
“Mayor [Eric] Adams has been briefed and has been following developments regarding the U-Haul truck that struck multiple pedestrians this a.m. in Brooklyn,” a City Hall spokesman said.
New York City Councilman Justin Brennan, whose district covers Bay Ridge, said it was unclear what sparked the rampage.
“We have no idea of motives at this time but this wasn’t an accident,” he wrote.
The U-Haul was being searched by the NYPD’s bomb squad as a precaution following the arrest, a Post reporter observed and sources said.
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The bomb squad later cleared the truck after finding some bottles of laundry detergent powder in the back, according to the sources.
The harrowing incident coincided with the start of the death penalty phase of Islamic extremist Sayfullo Saipov’s trial in Manhattan federal court. The ISIS-inspired terrorist fatally ran down eight people with a rented Home Depot truck off the West Side Highway on Oct. 31, 2017.
“That was the first thing that came to mind when I heard about the rented truck,” said former NYPD Chief of Detectives and ABC News contributor Robert Boyce, who worked the Saipov case.
“It’s difficult to link the two right now, but how can you not think about that?”
U-Haul ‘rampage’ as driver plows into New Yorkers, tells cops: ‘Shoot me. I’m not stopping’
Two of the victims were listed in critical condition, two in serious condition and four suffered minor injuries, according to the FDNY.
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