A Manhattan jury found Penny, 26 years old, not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the killing of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator with a history of mental illness ...

Daniel Penny is escorted in handcuffs by the NYPD after turning himself into the 5th Precinct on May 12, 2023 in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images, FILE.

Scarcely a week ago, Daniel Penny was facing the very real possibility of prison time. But last Monday, jurors in Manhattan cleared him of criminal responsibility for the 2023 death of Jordan ...

Video footage of the May 1, 2023, incident shows Daniel Penny holding Jordan Neely in a chokehold on the F train. ... noting he was never handcuffed or patted down by cops.

Daniel Penny (C) exits the NYPD's 5th Precinct in handcuffs (2023). A city medical examiner says Penny’s chokehold was what killed Black street performer Jordan Neely. However, the defense tried ...

Daniel Penny “did for others what we would want someone to do for us” -- defending panicked subway riders from an "unhinged" Jordan Neely -- when he put the troubled homeless man in a fatal ...

Did Daniel Penny, who had a green belt ... Two court officers, both of whom carried guns and handcuffs and wore black bulletproof vests and otherwise stoic expressions, wiped tears from their eyes.

NEW YORK – Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely. It comes after jurors told the court Friday morning they couldn ...

Jordan Neely’s death in a crowded Manhattan subway car struck a nerve with New Yorkers in May 2023, when bystander video of Daniel Penny placing the troubled homeless man in a fatal chokehold… ...

NEW YORK − A judge in Daniel Penny's case on Friday dismissed a charge of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Jordan Neely, leaving the jury to consider a lesser charge of criminally ...

Daniel Penny is scheduled to stand trial next month after he put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold in May 2023 aboard an F train in what his attorneys say was an effort to "protect the lives of ...

Daniel Penny is escorted in handcuffs by the NYPD after turning himself into the 5th Precinct on May 12, 2023 in New York City. Penny's trial will likely bring the issue of crime and public ...