“Passengers are not supposed to die on the floor of our subways,” attorney Lennon Edwards said in a statement, adding that Neely had to wait “too long to go without help, intervention and without air.”Īttorney Donte Mills said, “We have people being killed for ringing the wrong doorbell, pulling in the wrong driveway and screaming out in desperation on the subway. Neely’s family has retained the law firm Mills & Edwards LLP to represent them. The Marine veteran who held Neely in a chokehold, meanwhile, has hired a former Republican Manhattan District Attorney candidate to represent him, the attorney’s law firm confirmed on Friday.Īttorney Thomas Kenniff, who ran against now Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in 2021, is an Iraq War veteran and major in the Army National Guard whose bid for DA focused on reducing crime and opposing criminal justice reform. Prosecutors are expected to continue discussions on the investigation through the weekend, reviewing evidence and witness statements, a law enforcement source told CNN.įour passengers who were in the train car have been interviewed by police, but authorities are still seeking to speak with several others. “As part of our rigorous ongoing investigation, we will review the Medical Examiner’s report, assess all available video and photo footage, identify and interview as many witnesses as possible, and obtain additional medical records,” Manhattan District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Doug Cohen said in a statement. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating Neely’s death, which has triggered protests in New York City demanding justice in the case, in which no charges have been filed days after the killing. Protestors in Brooklyn on Thursday demand justice after the death of Jordan Neely in the New York subway.

They’re just finding out, and they’re crying, they don’t know what to think,” Harper said. Harper, who described Neely as a kind and sweet soul, said people from around the world have been reaching out to her about his death. “I had never seen him like that before,” she said. The last time Harper saw Neely was in 2016 when she bumped into him on the subway and saw he was experiencing homelessness when he asked passengers for food. The 30-year-old’s death was ruled a homicide, but it does not mean there was intent or culpability, which is a matter for the criminal justice system to consider, a spokesperson for the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said. “We hope that out of this awful tragedy will come a new commitment by our elected officials to address the mental health crisis on our streets and subways.”Ī law enforcement source also confirmed the identity to CNN. Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death,” the law firm of Raiser and Kenniff, P.C. What we know about Jordan Neely's chokehold death on the New York subwayĪn attorney for the veteran on Friday identified him as Daniel Penny, 24.

New York police officers respond to the scene where a fight was reported on a subway train, Monday, May 1, 2023, in New York. A witness told CNN Neely – who was experiencing homelessness, according to a source familiar with his case – did not harm anyone nor did they see him armed with any weapon. On Monday afternoon, Neely was killed after being held in a chokehold by a Marine veteran on a subway after Neely got on the train and shouted at passengers that he was hungry, thirsty and fed up with having nothing. The brutality behind that, that traumatized him,” Harper told CNN. He was not expecting that, the brutal way she was taken. When she took him under her wing, Neely opened up to her about how hard it was losing his mother as a young teenager. Harper and Neely became friends quickly after they met in 2009. He disclosed that she was murdered, and her body was put in a suitcase,” Moses Harper, an artist who knew Neely, told CNN. “He told me about how much his mother’s passing impacted him. Before Jordan Neely was killed on a New York City subway car this week, he was known for his swift Michael Jackson dance moves that entertained many - yet he struggled with the trauma his mother’s murder had left him with at an early age.

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