Supply: Anadolu Company / Getty

Daniel Penny, the person who choked and killed Jordan Neely on a New York Metropolis subway prepare has turned himself over to authorities.

Penny, a former Marine, arrived on the Fifth Precinct of the New York Police Division within the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan at 8 A.M. on Friday (Might twelfth). He surrendered alongside his attorneys, Steven Raiser & Thomas Kenniff.

Penny faces a cost of second-degree manslaughter, which was introduced by the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace on Thursday.

Raiser and Kenniff mentioned in an announcement that they have been “assured that after all of the details and circumstances surrounding this tragic incident are delivered to bear, Mr. Penny can be totally absolved of any wrongdoing.” A second-degree cost of manslaughter in New York is utilized when the assailant is accused of recklessly inflicting the dying of one other particular person. If convicted of the cost in a trial, the 24-year-old Penny would face a sentence of as much as 15 years in jail. The town medical expert dominated that Neely died on account of compression of the neck on Might third.

Penny’s give up comes after days of sustained however rising outrage expressed by group activists and politicians who have been shocked at witnessing the video of Penny restraining Neely, a Black man who was homeless, in a chokehold on a northbound F prepare. A witness on the identical prepare said that Neely was yelling at others after boarding the prepare whereas within the midst of a psychological well being disaster. Penny would seize Neely and put him in a chokehold as two different males restrained his legs and arms. Police arrived on the Broadway-Lafayette station, and rushed Neely to a close-by hospital the place he died.

Mayor Eric Adams had acquired heavy criticism from Democratic politicians for not taking a stronger stance on the incident, however after the announcement of costs he mentioned: “I’ve the utmost religion within the judicial course of, and now justice can transfer ahead towards Daniel Penny.” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor who was a part of the workforce that introduced the case by the D.A.’s workplace towards the Trump Group, has been tasked to guide the investigation.

The household of Jordan Neely held a press convention afterward, blasting media depictions of Neely as excessively violent. Household legal professional Lennon Edwards mentioned of the cost, “We’re nearer now to justice than we have been every week in the past as a result of Daniel Penny has been arrested.” In addition they blasted Penny’s earlier assertion, claiming that “he’s attending to rewrite the account of what occurred”.