Daniel Penny, 24, who authorities say is the man who put Jordan Neely into a deadly chokehold, was protecting himself and others at the time, his lawyers said.
, mental health and violence on subways. Neely, a subway busker who performed dance routines in costume as Michael Jackson, suffered from mental illness, attorneys for his family said.Penny graduated from West Islip High School on Long Island, New York, in 2016, a district spokesperson said Friday without disclosing additional details.
Penny was awarded two Sea Service Deployment Ribbons and five medals, including the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. After the military, Penny enrolled in college but dropped out because he felt "completely unfulfilled" and instead backpacked through Central America, according to his profile on Harri, a recruitment and workforce management platform for the hospitality industry. He was looking for work as a bartender in Manhattan, the profile says.A police spokesman said officers were called to the station after they got a 911 call about a physical fight.
Juan Alberto Vazquez was on the train and partly captured the altercation on his cellphone. The video, widely viewed, does not show what happened before the chokehold.that Neely got on the train 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.
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