Daniel Penny

The jury in the Daniel Penny trial went home without reaching a verdict after a second day of deliberations. News 4’s Rana Novini reports. 

Jurors asked Wednesday to review police and bystander video at the heart of the chokehold manslaughter case against Daniel Penny as his lawyers complained that an aggressive protester was harassing the Marine veteran outside the New York City courthouse.

The anonymous jury is weighing manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of Jordan Neely, a troubled street performer who was homeless. The veteran, Daniel Penny, has pleaded not guilty.

Closing arguments got underway Monday in the Daniel Penny manslaughter trial in Manhattan. News 4’s Rana Novini reports. 

Ahead of closing arguments in the subway chokehold death trial of Daniel Penny, defense attorney Michael Bachner explains what the jury could hear this week before deliberations. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports. 

Closing arguments have begun in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with recklessly choking to death an irate, homeless man on a New York subway train.

Daniel Penny has chosen not to testify at his trial in the death of an agitated man he choked on a subway train.

Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran, is facing more than a decade behind bars. The defense, which rested its case on Friday, has said he held Jordan Neely down for nearly six minutes to protect others on the F train. The state has an alternative view, saying what he did is criminal negligent homicide and manslaughter. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield...

The defense in the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny called a forensic pathologist to the witness stand today. News 4 New York’s Erica Byfield reports. 

A forensic pathologist disputes a New York City medical examiner’s determination that former Marine Daniel Penny killed another man by placing him in a chokehold on a subway train last year.

Rana Novini has the latest for NBC New York. 

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...

Jury selection continued Friday, but no jurors have yet been chosen in the case against Daniel Penny.

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.