Global Courant 2023-05-10 05:58:46
The man charged with ramming a U-Haul box truck into scooter riders and bicyclists in Brooklyn, New York, ultimately killing one person and injuring 10 others, was charged Monday with murder, attempted murder and assault .
On the morning of February 13, 2023, former Las Vegas, Nevada resident Weng Sor, 62 reportedly began his path of destruction at 55th Street and 4th Avenue in Sunset Park and ended at 72nd Street and 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge.
Weng Sor will be led from the 68th Precinct in the Brooklyn borough of New York by New York Police detectives on Tuesday, February 14, 2023. Sor was charged with murder and attempted murder on Tuesday after driving a U-Trekker in New York City a day earlier. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah, File)
Brooklyn Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a press release that witnesses and surveillance footage capture the defendant driving a U-Haul truck, hitting numerous e-bike riders and a cyclist, and pedestrians, motorists and others waiting to cross the street. crossing at risk.
NYC U-HAUL RAMPAGE SUSPECTED WITH GREAT PAST TO BE CHARGED IN ATTACK THAT KILLED 1, WOUNDED 8 OTHERS
The chaos unfolded for 48 minutes as the truck tore through the Bay Ridge area, hitting people at several points along the way before turning up and down a highway as police gave chase.
Sor also reportedly drove onto the sidewalk and hit a pedestrian, and towards a police officer who was hit and injured by an e-bike being towed by the truck.
Members of the NYPD Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit investigate a rental truck that was pulled over and the driver arrested on Monday, February 13, 2023 in New York. Police stopped a U-Haul truck and arrested the driver after reports that the vehicle struck multiple pedestrians in New York City on Monday. Authorities say the truck driver fled the scene after climbing a sidewalk in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood, injuring several people. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
The truck’s winding route ended when a police car cut it off and blocked it against a building at the entrance to a tunnel leading from Brooklyn to Manhattan, more than three miles from where the chase began.
PEDESTRIANS IN NEW YORK CITY PASSED, TOWED BY U-HAUL; NYPD BOMBS ON SCENE
Sor was eventually apprehended after being boxed in.
YiJie Ye, 44, was a father of three who, according to the prosecutor, was riding an e-bike when he was hit near Bay Ridge Parkway and Fifth Avenue. Ye eventually died of a head injury.
Members of the NYPD’s explosive ordnance disposal squad pause before approaching a rental truck that was pulled over in New York on Monday, February 13, 2023, and the driver arrested. Police stopped a U-Haul truck and arrested the driver after reports that the vehicle struck multiple pedestrians in New York City on Monday. Authorities say the truck driver fled the scene after climbing a sidewalk in Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge neighborhood, injuring several people. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
All other injuries individuals suffered included rib fractures, a pelvic fracture, broken legs, and other bone injuries, which required many of the victims to have surgery.
NEW YORK CITY POLICE ARRESTED SUSPECTED WITH HISTORY OF MENTAL ILLNESS IN U-HAUL RAMPAGE: REPORTS
Sor was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree and second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault, and first-degree attempted assault on the 25-count indictment.
He was arraigned before Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Danny Chun and ordered to be held without bail.
Sor is expected back in court on May 31.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
“This was a terrifying incident where we allege an innocent pedestrian and numerous cyclists were deliberately attacked and mowed down by this defendant, including a father of three who did not survive his injuries,” Gonzalez said. “We will now try to bring the defendant to justice and keep the streets of Brooklyn safe.”
Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital.
