Daniel Penny’s mother was called to the witness stand in her son’s defense, while a forensic psychiatrist testified about the mental health crisis Jordan Neely was facing the day he died on the F train in SoHo. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A medical examiner testified that it was Daniel Penny’s chokehold that was the sole cause of Jordan Neely’s death on a subway train. News 4’s Erica Byfield reports from Lower Manhattan. 

The man who trained Daniel Penny when he was in the Marines, Joseph Caballer, testified on Penny’s manslaughter trial about the training Penny received on chokeholds. The day concluded with testimony from the medical examiner who performed Jordan Neely’s autopsy. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A former Marine combat instructor testified that Daniel Penny misused a combat maneuver when he fatally choked Jordan Neely aboard a Manhattan subway, saying he appeared to have attempted a “blood choke” and should’ve known to let go after Neely lost consciousness.

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...