What we know about the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway.
Andrew Savulich / New York Daily News/TNS via Getty Images file, a homeless busker who appeared to be in mental distress, was put in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway this week — and the public outcry for accountability has grown louder and louder.
The investigation found that Neely was “engaged in a verbal dispute with a 24-year-old male” that escalated into a physical altercation, police said. During the “physical struggle,” Neely lost consciousness.Cellphone video taken by passenger Juan Alberto Vazquez showed the 24-year-old man on the ground with his arm around Neely’s neck. Two other subway riders appear to help restrain Neely, who was Black.
A police spokesperson said that after the autopsy report revealed the cause of Neely's death as homicide, the district attorney's office is investigating the matter and will decide on whether or not to charge the 24-year-old. Neely suffered from mental illness “which began at age 14 when he experienced the brutal murder of his mother,” a law firm hired by his family, Mills & Edwards LLP, said in a statement Thursday.report, Neely's mother, Christie Neely was strangled to death in a home in New Jersey that she shared with Shawn Southerland in April 2007. Her body was found stuffed in a suitcase that was dumped on a roadway, the report said.
“It would be incredible to me if the outcome of this was no charge, because how can you say that it’s okay for someone to strangle someone,” he said. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul told reporters that the video of the subway altercation was “horrific” and that the subway riders’ response to Neely was “very extreme.” She appeared in favor of charging the 24-year-old, saying “there have to be consequences and so we’ll see how this unfolds but his family deserves justice.”“There are many layers to this. I’m gonna let the process follow its course, and so I won’t get engaged with comparisons on where we are, where we aren’t. I’m not going to do that.
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