After his arrest, 62-year-old suspect Weng Sor told police he believed it was 'judgement day' and was aiming the U-Haul truck at 'the people that disturbed him the most,' according to prosecutors
Sor was walked out of a police station in handcuffs Tuesday night, shouting words about"war." His family said he'd stopped taking his medication, Chief of Detectives James Essig told reporters Tuesday, which may have caused him to see the"invisible object" during the mental health episode.
A senior law enforcement official told News 4 that Sor said in a statement that he"only ran over bad people — not good people." The scope and length of the destruction led to questions about the NYPD's response and whether the pursuit — which at one point involved a police car speeding after the U-Haul up onto the sidewalk Mohammed Salah Rakchi, 36, a delivery worker who emigrated from Algeria three years ago, was hit while running errands after dropping his 7-year-old daughter off at school. The first victim hit in the rampage, Rakchi suffered broken bones, brain bleeding and other injuries.
NYPD policy requires officers to stop chasing vehicles when the risks to police and the public “outweigh the danger to the community.” Weng Sor’s 30-year-old son, Stephen Sor, told The Associated Press that his father had a history of mental illness. He said they didn't speak often and described their relationship as"rocky" and that"I try to just distance, as long as he leaves us alone." Records show the father was convicted and served time for multiple acts of violence, including stabbing his own brother.
Sor's criminal history includes arrests for driving while intoxicated and evading a police officer in 2002 and multiple instances of battery. The destruction shattered the late-morning routine and immediately evoked memories of other vehicle assaults on bikers and pedestrians in the crowded city, including a terrorist’s deadly 2017 attack that killed eight people on a Manhattan bike path and a disturbed motorist’s rampage through Times Square the same year that killed one and injured 20.
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