MANHATTAN, NY – The Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., announced the indictment of Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old Queens resident, on Wednesday. Penny faces charges of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and Criminally Negligent Homicide for placing Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the F train.
Court documents indicate that on May 1, Mr. Neely entered a northbound F train at the 2nd Avenue station, making verbal threats to passengers.
Penny responded by applying a chokehold to Mr. Neely until and after he stopped moving. Despite resuscitative efforts at the Broadway-Lafayette station, Mr. Neely was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Penny, a former U.S. Marine said he was just protecting other passengers after Neely became unruly. The incident has since gone viral and has become a national-level news story.