An attorney for Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran charged in the death of homeless man Jordan Neely on a subway train in New York City on May 1, said it’s “absurd” for the Neely family’s attorney to claim his client believed he had the right to take someone’s life.
Thomas Kenniff made the remarks while responding to an earlier statement by the Neely family’s attorney, Donte Mills, in reaction to Penny’s recent interview with the New York Post.
“We want to know why he didn’t let go of that chokehold until Jordan was dead,” Mills said in a statement obtained by Fox News, adding that Penny’s “planned drive through Africa can’t explain why you thought you had the right to take someone’s life even if they were houseless and had mental illness.”…