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Daniel Penny's 30-minute police interrogation reveals he told officers he was afraid Jordan Neely might make good on his threats when he grabbed him in a headlock last year.
Daniel Penny “did for others what we would want someone to do for us” -- defending panicked subway riders from an "unhinged" Jordan Neely -- when he put the troubled homeless man in a fatal ...
A Manhattan jury cleared Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s chokehold death on a NYC subway last year. NEW YORK (AP) — A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an ...
Daniel Penny arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court on Thursday. Gabriella Bass “I wasn’t trying to injure him,” Penny told detectives at Chinatown’s 5th Precinct, the interrogation video shows.
Daniel Penny, the Marine who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold, “should be celebrated” for jumping into action “for the benefit of others” on the crowded Manhattan subway, his ...
Daniel Penny, accused of putting a subway rider in a deadly chokehold in 2023, arrives for opening statements in his New York City trial on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.
NEW YORK — Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree on this about Marine veteran Daniel Penny's encounter last year with a distressed, angry man making ominous remarks on a New York subway: Penny ...
The racial dynamics of the case — Mr. Penny is white and Mr. Neely was Black — drew intense attention, as did concerns about subway crime and the treatment of the mentally ill in New York.
Subway crime is down overall, but not assaults — leaving the vulnerable in New York City dependent on, and grateful for, ...
The reactions are mixed after *** jury found Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide. Yesterday, the case stems from an incident on the New York subway train last year.
Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old former Marine, has been charged with second-degree manslaughter in the killing of Jordan Neely, 30, on an F train earlier this month.
Daniel Penny faces charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 chokehold death of Jordan Neely.