A Manhattan manslaughter trial is underway against Daniel Penny, 26 — a Long Island native who served in the Marine Corps — charged for placing NYC homeless man Jordan Neely in a deadly chokehold on the subway in May 2023 after Neely made disturbing threats on board the train.
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What to know about the Daniel Penny case
- Fleming: Penny stoic on first day in court as prosecution and defense present very different versions of subway death
- Shocking footage played at Daniel Penny trial shows officers saying Jordan Neely had a pulse
- Live updates from Day 1 of the trial: ‘I will kill,’ disturbed Neely said before Penny put him in chokehold, lawyer says
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Witness to Neely’s subway rant was so nervous, she thought she’d ‘pass out’
By Kyle Schnitzer and Ben Kochman
Ivette Rosario, who was 17 at the time of the fatal encounter, testified that Jordan Neely’s rant after bursting through the doors of the uptown F train at Second Avenue was so frightening that she thought she “was going to pass out.”
Neely said he was homeless, hungry and “didn’t care about going back to jail,” Rosario told jurors.
“I was very nervous, and I thought I was going to pass out because I was so nervous,” she said.
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