The death of New York City subway rider and familiar Michael Jackson street impersonator Jordan Neely has been ruled a homicide, the city’s medical examiner said last night
Neely had been placed in a chokehold by a fellow subway rider Monday after the homeless man began screaming at passengers and behaving erratically. In a widely viewed cellphone video shared on social media by another passenger, the 30-year-old Neely can be seen struggling as another man – later identified only as a 24-year-old man with prior military training – holds him in a chokehold on the subway floor.
At that point, apparently, the 24-year-old man approached Neely from behind and subdued him by placing him in the chokehold. Neely had gone unconscious on the floor of the moving F subway train in Lower Manhattan. Police arrived on the scene after Neely had stopped moving, and released the 24-year-old man after some initial questioning. Neely was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The incident is especially volatile since it taps into divisive racial issues , as well as perceptions of rising subway violence and seeming increases in the numbers of mentally ill homeless people in the post-Covid streets and mass transit.New York City Mayor Eric Adams called the death “tragic” but noted, “there’s a lot we don’t know about what happened here.”
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