Marine vet Daniel Penny ‘will be charged tomorrow with fatal subway choke hold of homeless Jordan Neely’ – as DA Alvin Bragg woke up called
Marine veteran Daniel Penny will be charged tomorrow for the fatal chokehold of homeless Jordan Neely on the NYC subway, it is alleged.
NBC4 New York reports that 24-year-old Penny could be charged as early as Friday over the death of 30-year-old Neely on May 1.
Penny is expected to surrender to a police station. It was reported that Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg had considered taking the case to a grand jury.
But now it is believed that he will go straight to the indictment, without taking the case before such a jury first.
Neely died on an F train at Broadway Lafayette Station at about 2:25 p.m. on the afternoon of May 1.
Neely, who was homeless, was placed in a chokehold by former Marine Daniel Penny
Daniel Penny wrestles Jordan Neely on the floor of the F train on May 1
NYPD officers attempt to revive Jordan Neely as he lies on the floor of an F train
One report claimed he threw garbage at other passengers and made threats before Penny stepped in to subdue him.
Images showed Penny with his arm around Neely’s neck. Some eyewitnesses claim that he held the stranglehold for about 15 minutes.
Penny, from Glendale, Queens, has engaged a lawyer who issued a statement claiming his actions were in self-defense and that he had no intention of harming Neely.
Neely was schizophrenic with 44 prior arrests. His family says his mental health deteriorated after the brutal 2007 murder of his mother by her abusive partner.