NEW YORK—Witnesses to the May 2023 incident in which former Marine Daniel Penny placed Jordan Neely, a homeless man with a history of mental illness, into a chokehold on a Manhattan-bound subway train and caused his death, testified in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday about what they saw and heard that day.
One witness, Yvette Rosario, said the incident made her far more frightened than anything she had experienced on the subway in her 10 years of living in New York City. Jurors watched a portion of a video of the incident and its aftermath taken with Rosario’s cell phone.
After seating a full jury last week, the trial got into full swing on Friday in Judge Maxwell Wiley’s courtroom in the criminal court building at 100 Centre Street in lower Manhattan….