FOG BLOG U.S. LOG: U-HAUL PLOWS INTO PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN, 1 KILLED , 7 INJURED!

1 dead, 7 injured after U-Haul driver plows into people in Brooklyn: Sources

The driver is in custody. A U-Haul driver is in custody after allegedly striking eight people in a "violent rampage" in multiple locations in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday, according to NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell.

Four people have been hospitalized, two in critical condition and two in serious condition, the commissioner said at a news conference.

One victim, a 44-year-old, has died, police sources later told ABC News.

The victims range in age from 30 to 66 years old, the NYPD said. Four others suffered minor injuries, Sewell said.

One of the eight injured was a police officer who tried to stop the driver, she said.

"We have seven different locations to process," the commissioner said. The driver was identified by police sources as 62-year-old Weng Sor. He allegedly screamed that he wanted to die as he sped off and led police on a brief chase, according to a law enforcement official and a local councilman.

He allegedly fled from Brooklyn's Bay Ridge neighborhood through Sunset Park before being apprehended a few miles away in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, ending the 40-minute ordeal.

Police searched the truck and found nothing suspicious, sources said.

U-Haul said in a statement that the truck was rented for 30 days with a return date of March 3, and that the daily cost of the rental was paid in advance and on a valid contract.

"It was an in-town rental, meaning the equipment was supposed to be returned to the location from which it was dispatched," U-Haul said. "Our customers provide valid identification/driver's license, valid form of payment, and any additional forms of meaningful assurance our rental agents deem necessary to try to make certain our equipment will be returned in proper condition, and at the stipulated time and place. These criteria must be met before a transaction occurs."