Defense pathologist says Jordan Neely didn't die of chokehold on NYC subway
Jordan Neely died from the “combined effects” of a number of a factors, not a chokehold, a forensic pathologist hired by Daniel Penny’s attorneys testified Thursday.
Jordan Neely died from the “combined effects” of a number of a factors, not a chokehold, a forensic pathologist hired by Daniel Penny’s attorneys testified Thursday.
Penny is charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Neely on a New York City subway train in May 2023.
Dr. Satish Chundru took the stand as the second expert witness for the defense team, which is trying to refute testimony from a New York City medical examiner who ruled that Neely died from compression to his neck as a result of a chokehold.
Chundru, a forensic pathologist and consultant who said he has worked as a medical examiner for counties in Florida and Texas, said he has conducted more than 9,000 autopsies. He said the defense retained him a little over two weeks after Neely’s killing.
Neely, 30, who had a history of mental illness, shouted, threw his jacket to the ground and made distressing comments about being hungry and thirsty and wanting to return to jail when he boarded an uptown F train on May 1, 2023. Penny, 26, who was a passenger on the train, put Neely in a chokehold and took him to the ground. His attorneys have said that he did not intend to kill Neely and that he acted to protect the people around him.
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