The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating Neely’s death, which has triggered protests in New York City demanding justice in the case. Protestors in Brooklyn on Thursday demand justice after the death of Jordan Neely in the New York subway. Kenniff is an Iraq War veteran and major in the Army National Guard whose bid for DA focused on reducing crime and opposing criminal justice reform. Penny has hired a former Republican Manhattan District Attorney candidate to represent him, the attorney’s law firm confirmed on Friday.Īttorney Thomas Kenniff, who ran against now Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2021, declined to comment. “We hope that out of this awful tragedy will come a new commitment by our elected officials to address the mental health crisis on our streets and subways.” Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death,” his attorneys said in a statement. He was a sergeant and served from 2017 to 2021, and his last duty assignment was at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, military records show. Penny is a veteran who served in the US Marines, according to law enforcement and military records. He was interviewed by detectives and released, a law enforcement source said, noting the man does not have a criminal record. The man who put Neely in the chokehold has been identified as Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old Marine veteran from Queens, New York, his attorneys said in a statement Friday night. New York police officers respond after a man riding the subway was placed in a chokehold by another passenger on Monday. One appeared to be mediating the situation while the other seemed to help the man restrain Neely, according to Vazquez. The two men were on the floor for about seven minutes, said Vazquez, adding he started recording about three or four minutes after the chokehold began.Īt some point, two other passengers approached Neely as he was being held in a chokehold. In the video recorded by Vazquez, Neely and the other man are on the floor of a subway car with the man’s arm wrapped around Neely’s neck. Then a rider came up behind Neely and put him in a chokehold, with the two falling to the floor, said Vazquez, who added Neely did not interact with the passenger at all before the attack. Some subway riders moved to other parts of the train car. I don’t have any food … I’m done,” according to Vazquez.Īt some point, Neely threw his jacket on the train’s floor, repeating he was ready to go to jail and get a life sentence, Vazquez said. Neely yelled about being “fed up and hungry” and “tired of having nothing,” Vazquez told CNN. In the minutes before the deadly chokehold, Neely had been “acting erratically,” but he did not attack anyone, according to Juan Alberto Vazquez, who recorded the altercation on video. Neely was experiencing homelessness, according to a source familiar with his case. Neely was killed Monday afternoon, after being held in a chokehold when he got on a train and shouted at passengers.Ī witness told CNN Neely did not harm anyone nor did they see him armed with any weapon. Here’s what we know about his death – which has divided a city struggling with mounting homelessness and growing numbers of people with mental illness on the streets and subways: Neely, a well-known Michael Jackson impersonator in Times Square and on the subway, was pronounced dead at a hospital. Jordan Neely, 30, shouted at passengers that he was hungry, thirsty and tired of having nothing before he was grabbed from behind in a chokehold by a Marine veteran. A video of a man experiencing homelessness who later died after being held in a chokehold on the New York City subway has drawn national attention.
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