BREAKING: Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in fatal chokehold on NYC subway expected to be charged as soon as Friday, two sources say.
, will be arraigned in Manhattan criminal court, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said Thursday. Penny was taken into custody after the May 1 incident but was released.on the ground holding Jordan Neely in a chokehold following an altercation.
Neely, a 30-year-old subway busker who performed dance routines in costume as Michael Jackson, was unconscious when officers arrived at the Broadway and East Houston Street station. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, police said. "The man got on the subway car and began to say a somewhat aggressive speech, saying he was hungry, he was thirsty, that he didn’t care about anything, he didn’t care about going to jail, he didn’t care that he gets a big life sentence," Vazquez told the station in Spanish."That it doesn’t even matter if I died.'"
New York police previously said that officers responded to the subway station after receiving a 911 call about a physical fight. An investigation revealed that Neely and PennyNeely's death"His killing at the hands of a fellow passenger and the responses to this violence that took his life have been not only tragic but difficult to absorb," City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams said last week.
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