Daniel Penny, who is charged in the death of Jordan Neely, walks into the courthouse as closing arguments begin in his trial, Dec. 2, 2024, in New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images.

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 ...

Daniel Penny's defense attorneys rested their case Friday with testimony about Jordan Neely's open warrant -- and without calling the Marine veteran to the stand at his lighting-rod manslaughter ...

Daniel Penny holds his baby niece, who has brought out a “beautiful side of him,” according to his sister Katie. Courtesy Penny family. But the Penny women say it’s strengthened their family ...

Daniel Penny not guilty in Jordan Neely's subway chokehold death - Extended coverage 21:06. NEW YORK -- Daniel Penny has been acquitted in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely last spring on the ...

Daniel Penny was found not guilty in the criminal case, but he now faces a civil suit from Jordan Neely’s father, who was absent most of his son’s life.

It is razor thin, as the trial of Daniel Penny has shown. Penny is a white, former Marine who put Jordan Neely, a Black man, in a six-minute choke hold in the New York subway in May 2023.

Daniel Penny arrives to court alongside attorney Steve Raiser at the New York Criminal Court building in Manhattan on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. Penny, a Marine veteran, ...

Daniel Penny arrives at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York City on Monday, December 9, 2024. The jury is continuing their deliberations in Penny’s trial for the 2023 death of Jordan Neely ...

Daniel Penny models at the Dress to Kilt event in Manhattan on April 5, 2025. William Miller “The next gentleman, the next model, can actually trace mention of his family back to the 12th ...