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Marine Daniel Penny did not kill serial criminal Jordan Neely when he put Neely in a chokehold to protect other subway passengers, an expert medical witness testified on Thursday.
Dr. Satish Chundru, who is a forensic pathologist in Texas, testified before the Manhattan Supreme Court regarding the autopsy records and video evidence surrounding the death of homeless criminal Neely after he threatened other train passengers and Penny tried to restrain him. Like in the case of George Floyd, evidence shows Neely might not actually have died from suffocation, but rather from drug- and schizophrenia-related complications.
Neely had been arrested 44 times before his sudden death, including for multiple assaults and attempted child abduction. He was homeless and had an arrest warrant out for him when his threatening words and actions on the Manhattan subway caused Penny to subdue him with a chokehold. Neely subsequently died, but Dr. Chundru says he believes that Neely’s death wasn’t caused by the chokehold.
The New York Post reported that when Penny’s attorney asked if his client had choked Neely to death, Dr. Chundru answered emphatically, “No, the chokehold did not cause death.
