Penny’s trial revolves around an altercation on the New York City subway in May of 2023 that was recorded and later went viral, leading to Penny being charged with the manslaughter of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black homeless man and former street performer, after a six-minute-long chokehold.

The jury is weighing manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of Jordan Neely, a street performer who was homeless.

A Manhattan jury began deliberating Tuesday in the manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine charged in the chokehold death of a homeless man on a New York City subway last year.

Daniel Penny is accused of putting a homeless man in a fatal chokehold for six minutes on a New York subway train.

Daniel Penny has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 death of New York subway rider Jordan Neely.

The Daniel Penny trial entered closing arguments Monday in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the subway in Manhattan.

Daniel Penny claims he acted in self-defense against threatening behavior when he put Jordan Neely in a chokehold on May 1, 2023.

Ex Marine seen in courthouse as closing arguments set to wrap in Daniel Penny subway chokehold trial where the ex Marine is on trial for the murder of homeless man, Jordan Neely

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