The U.S. Marine veteran who put Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold aboard a subway in New York City earlier this week has been identified through his lawyers as Daniel Penny.
In a statement issued by Penny’s criminal defense attorneys on Friday, the lawyers said their 24-year-old client expresses condolences to Neely’s relatives, arguing Penny and other passengers were acting in self-defense.
His lawyers, Thomas Kenniff and Steven Raiser, said Neely had been “aggressively threatening” their client and other passengers on an F train in Lower Manhattan Monday afternoon, noting Penny and others “acted to protect themselves, until help arrived.”…