Deranged Brooklyn U-Haul driver told cops an ‘invisible object’ sparked rampage: ‘I’ve had enough’

The deranged U-Haul driver busted in a terrifying Brooklyn rampage claimed he was hallucinating behind the wheel before killing one victim and running down eight others who thankfully survived, police said Tuesday.

Accused killer Weng Sor recounted spotting “an invisible object” heading toward his vehicle before launching his bizarre and deadly ride across the borough, said NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig — the carnage coming after the defendant battled mental health woes and was off his medications, according to family and friends.

“He states when he’s driving his van he sees an invisible object come towards the car and at that point he says, ‘I’ve had enough’ — and he goes on his rampage,” said Essig. “There’s no object. He says, ‘There’s an invisible object heading towards my car, and I’ve had enough.’”

The victims included seven riders on bicycles, mopeds and an e-bike, one pedestrian and a police officer, with one of the injured still in critical but stable condition, according to the chief. The defendant was charged with murder and multiple counts of attempted murder in the unprovoked attack.

On Tuesday night, Sor was led from the 68th Precinct stationhouse in shackles into a car ready to transfer him to Brooklyn Criminal Court. He muttered unintelligibly as reporters shouted questions.

During Monday’s rampage, officers from the NYPD’s 68th precinct cleared dozens of kids playing in nearby streets during recess, video released Tuesday shows.

In the harrowing body-worn camera footage, a cop is seen running down the street warning the children, their teachers and staff to get inside as Sor was racing through nearby streets.

“Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!” the officers shouts as kids run alongside and ahead him. “Guys, get off the street! Let’s go, off the street!”

With the help of staff watching over the children, the cop gets the kids off the street and into the school.

“This is Neighborhood Policing and your officer’s actions further exemplify the NYPD’s unwavering commitment to protecting the communities we serve,” the NYPD said in a tweet.

NYPD investigators determined Sor purposefully aimed his vehicle at the fleeing victims, police sources said.

The driver’s version of what happened emerged after a close family friend told the Daily News the suspect was off his meds, smoking marijuana — and eager for a Florida visit with ex-President Donald Trump.

Sor is “not stable and has mental problems,” family friend Wesley James Zimmerman told The News. “He has refused his medication for months now and is smoking weed, which furthers his delusions.”

Zimmerman described the suspect’s intent to visit Trump one day after Sor’s arrest for his wild ride through Brooklyn, which ended with the suspect shouting at police to gun him down.

“Shoot me! I’m not stopping!” howled Sor, 62, as police took him into custody at the end of the lengthy pursuit.

He remained in custody one day after the ugly spree behind the wheel of the U-Haul truck that had become his home.

Single dad YiJie Ye, 44, was the only person killed in the attack in which scores of pedestrians scrambled for cover as Sor drove through the borough streets and up on sidewalks.

Ye was pronounced dead of blunt-force trauma at NYU Langone Hospital.

Brooklyn was the suspect’s last stop after the longtime Las Vegas resident headed across the country on his way to New York. Sor, who lived with his mom in Nevada, rented the U-Haul on Feb. 1 in West Palm Beach and began living out of the vehicle filled with boxes, clothes and other items.

“He told his family that he was going to Florida to find Donald Trump,” Zimmerman said. “He’s been sick for about 15 years now. I’m not sure the exact illness, but he always does something extreme when he’s not medicated.”

Sor was stopped by the South Carolina highway patrol for reckless driving and marijuana possession on Feb. 5, said Essig. One day later, he arrived without warning in the middle of the night at the Brooklyn home of his ex-wife and son to take a shower, said the chief, departing and then returning two days later to do the same.

Son Stephen Sor described their relationship as troubled: “I try to just [keep] distance, as long as he leaves us alone.”

The U-Haul was traced this past Sunday to suburban Milburn, N.J., with Sor returning to Brooklyn on Monday, police said. The first victim, a male bicyclist, was struck at 10:20 a.m., and the last victim at 11:05 a.m., with the driver finally arrested at 11:24 a.m., cops said.

The suspect had previously served 17 months in a Nevada prison for stabbing his brother in Las Vegas in 2015, court and prison records show. An arrest report said the men’s mother returned home to find Sor holding a knife and his sibling bleeding profusely.

He was involved in a second incident in which two people were stabbed in 2020, spending several months in state psychiatric facilities before pleading guilty in the attack, records indicate.

The defendant was placed on medications, although court documents did not specify a diagnosis.

A law enforcement source said Sor’s motive may ultimately prove hard to determine.

“I don’t know if we’re going to know because we’re trying to apply a rational explanation to an irrational guy,” the source said. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he said, ‘Oh man, the Eagles lost.’ He’s that erratic. ... Some of what he says is concerning. But he’s a wild card.”

Sor’s attack began at Fourth Ave. and 54th St. in Sunset Park before moving south into Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, cops said. At one point in the bizarre incident, Sor steered his U-Haul truck onto the sidewalk before changing directions and heading north toward downtown Brooklyn.

Sor escaped onto the Gowanus Expressway and was eventually caught by the mouth of the Battery Tunnel in Red Hook.

Cops say Sor was born in Malaysia and is a U.S. citizen.

Earlier this month, he received two summons on the Belt Parkway for speeding and for using a commercial vehicle on the parkway.