Daniel Penny acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in Subway death case.

New York, Monday 10 Dec: Daniel Penny a 26-year-old man who initially pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide last year in May in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. The manslaughter charge was dismissed Friday.

A Manhattan jury found Daniel Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran not guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Monday in the case of the death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway during May 2023. Penny has previously faced a more serious charge. Judge Maxwell dismissed This charge on Friday at the request of prosecutors after the jury told the court twice that they could not come to a verdict on the count. The applause was in the courtroom while the not-guilty verdict was spread aloud. Penny made eye contact with the jury members that acquitted him nodding them in Thanks.

Penny’s attorney, Tom Kenniff, stated Penny’s condition and made statements to the media. Jordan Neely’s father was escorted out of the courtroom after an audible outburst with Profanities.

The jury pondered for just an hour over the criminally negligent homicide charge. The case starts with the death of Nelly, a 30-year-old street artist who struggled with mental illness, genetic disease, and drugs on a subway car on May 1, 2023.

Neely had entered the train in an erratic condition as he threw his jacket on the floor and yelled at passengers saying he was hungry and thirsty and didn’t care whether he died, witnesses had. informed. As a passenger witnessing this Penny, grabbed Neely from behind in a chokehold, forcing him onto the train floor and choking him for several minutes straight. When he finally let go of the half Neely was nonresponsive and was declared dead. The whole incident was captured by a witness and has spread widely since.