The racist veteran marine who killed Black man Jordan Neely in NYC subway is identified as Daniel Penny

By Edward Era Barbacena 

The racist American Marine who fatally choked Jordan Neely on an NYC subway this week is 24-year-old Daniel Penny, The Post has confirmed.

Penny — who has not been criminally charged — was captured on camera putting Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, in a chokehold on the F train just before 2:30 p.m. Monday at a Lower Manhattan subway stop.

The Queens man, whose name started to circulate on Twitter overnight, served as an infantry squad leader and an instructor in water survival while in the Marines Corps from 2017 to 2021, according to his online resume. Penny graduated from high school in West Islip, NY.

He was deployed twice, the profile says.

He briefly enrolled in college following his tours with the Marines, but dropped out and backpacked in Central America, his profile says.

In Monday’s fatal encounter, Neely had been acting erratic on the subway, threatening riders and throwing garbage while asking riders for food.

At one point, he yelled he was “fed up” and “I don’t care if I go to jail, and if they give me life in prison,” according to police and witnesses.

The Marine then stepped in and put Neely in a headlock for minutes before he fell unconscious.

When EMS arrived, they could not revive Neely and he was pronounced dead.

Penny was briefly taken into custody but later released without charges, with police saying they were waiting for the autopsy to come back before considering criminal charges.

The city medical examiner ruled Wednesday that Neely’s death was a homicide by compression of the neck.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said following the release it was conducting a “rigorous” investigation that was being handled by “senior, experienced prosecutors” as to whether to charge Penny in the fatal chokehold.