Neely died last Monday when former Marine Penny restrained him onboard an F train in Manhattan Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

Daniel Penny’s chokehold of Jordan Neely isn’t what killed the homeless man — he died from the “combined effects” of synthetic marijuana, schizophrenia and other factors, the defense’s ...

Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide for the death of Jordan Neely by the jury on Monday. Penny, a 25-year-old former Marine, put Neely, a 30-year-old homeless ...

On May 1, Jordan Neely was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital where he was pronounced dead after being subdued and placed in a chokehold while on the New York subway Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital ...

Marine veteran Daniel Penny was released on $100,000 bail on Friday. He was charged with second-degree manslaughter for placing Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a subway. Photo: Timothy A.

Penny is charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in the May 2023 subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man, in New York City.

Just one day after being acquitted in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, Marine veteran Daniel Penny shared his thoughts on the "vulnerable position" he said he was in.