The truck driver who hit cyclists and pedestrians yesterday Monday while trying to escape police will face trial. brooklyn her NY.

Nine people were injured, one of them died in hospital. This is a 44-year-old man who was brought in with severe head injuries, and doctors were unable to save his life.

In a documentary video broadcast by WABC-TV, part of a pickup truck being chased by a police patrol car can be seen. The pedestrian flees at the last moment before being swept away by a speeding car.

Weng Shor rented a truck on February 1 in Florida and was supposed to deliver it the next month. The newspaper “New York Times.

🚨#UPDATE: Here is a suspect taken into custody after the U-Haul truck police hit several people, says he is 50 years old and Asian. pic.twitter.com/7ztPPl4XaV

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62 year old he has a previous conviction for assault with a knife, and his relatives describe him as “schizophrenic”. He served 17 months in prison for stabbing his brother in 2015 in Las Vegas. He spent nearly a year in prison for stabbing in a fight in 2020.

“he is schizophrenic!” — said his son-in-law Daryl Singer in an interview with the New York Post. “I have been saying for a long time that one day he will be killed,” he added.

Stephen Shore, a 62-year-old son, told The Associated Press that his father is suffering from severe mental illness and is on medication.

According to APE-MPE, Reuters, New York Times and New York Post.