There was new testimony in Daniel Penny’s manslaughter trial in Manhattan from one of the witnesses. A man who helped pin down Jordan Neely’s hands while Penny held him in a chokehold on the subway took the stand, but that same witness also admitted to initially lying to police about what happened that day on the F train. NBC New...

A subway commuter who helped an ex-Marine restrain an agitated man aboard a Manhattan subway last year testified that he tried to convince the veteran to loosen his grip around the man’s neck.

Never-before-seen cellphone video showed the moment Daniel Penny put Jordan Neely in a deadly chokehold on a subway train in May 2023. It came out during day 2 of the manslaughter trial against the Marine veteran. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

Jurors have seen video of Daniel Penny gripping a man around the neck on a New York City subway train as another passenger beseeched the Marine veteran to let go.

The trial of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran charged in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, began Friday, with jurors seeing police bodycam video from the moments when officers arrived at the scene. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree on one thing about Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s encounter last year with a distressed, angry and threatening man on a New York subway: Penny didn’t mean to kill him. But a prosecutor told jurors Friday that Penny “went way too far” in trying to neutralize someone he saw as a threat and not as...

Jury selection was underway Monday in the trial of Daniel Penny, the Marines veteran accused of putting Jordan Neely in a deadly chokehold on a subway train last year. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

Jury selection was underway Monday in the trial of Daniel Penny, a retired Marine charged in the deadly subway chokehold of Jordan Neely.

Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of Daniel Penny, a retired Marine charged in the deadly subway chokehold of Jordan Neely. Penny has pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the death of Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator who was shouting and begging for money on a Manhattan train last May. To get a…

Daniel Penny, the retired Marine charged in a deadly chokehold on the subway, suffered a legal setback Friday, as the jury will be able to hear some of the things he told police in the immediate aftermath of the incident.