The trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine charged with killing Jordan Neely aboard a New York City subway, featured testimony from a man who helped the defendant restrain the victim.

The homicide detective who interviewed Daniel Penny shortly after he placed Jordan Neely in a chokehold on an uptown F train last year knew that Neely had died, he testified at Penny’s criminal trial Thursday. But Penny, he said, did not.

Detective Brian McCarthy testified that he did not tell Penny that Neely had died during the interrogation — though video of the subway car shows that Penny witnessed police officers trying to revive a lifeless Neely minutes after the chokehold ended.

A man who aided Daniel Penny while he restrained Jordan Neely in a lethal chokehold aboard a subway car in May 2023 recalled telling the former U.S. Marine he could safely release his grip from Neely’s neck in trial testimony on Tuesday.

A subway commuter who helped an ex-Marine restrain an agitated man aboard a Manhattan subway last year testified that he tried to convince the veteran to loosen his grip around the man’s neck.

A city straphanger who jumped in to try to help Daniel Penny restrain Jordan Neely told jurors Tuesday that the troubled homeless man looked like he was trying to “escape” the Marine veteran’s chokehold.

The man seen on video helping Daniel Penny restrain Jordan Neely on board the subway last year took the stand Tuesday on day five of witness testimony in Penny's trial.

Jordan Neely was killed aboard an NYC subway train in May 2023 by a white marine who calls himself trying to play hero. BOSSIP reported extensively on the incident in which that white man, Daniel Penny, applied a chokehold for so long that Neely eventually stopped breathing and died in front of a train car of commuters.