“I want to state up front that there were many people who tried to help Jordan get the support he needed,” Adams said. Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service/Getty Imagesīefore fatal subway chokehold, Jordan Neely was on NYC's list of homeless individuals with dire needs Michael Jackson impersonator Jordan Neely, pictured here in 2009, was killed after a passenger on a New York City subway restrained him in a chokehold. He’d also been on a city Department of Homeless Services list of unhoused people with acute needs compiled so outreach organizations can be on the lookout for those people, who tend to disappear, and alert the city’s homeless services department, a source told CNN. Neely in recent years had interacted with New York City agencies and community-based providers, Adams said. Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death,” Penny’s lawyers, who identified him as the man in the encounter with Neely, said in a statement.Ĭity must help those ‘unaware of their own need’ “He knew nothing about Jordan’s history when he intentionally wrapped his arms around Jordan’s neck, and squeezed and kept squeezing,” the family’s attorneys have said. Neely’s family has criticized Penny’s “indifference” and called for his imprisonment. “While we have no control over that process, one thing we can control is how our city responds to this tragedy,” Adams said. Neely’s death was ruled a homicide, though the designation doesn’t mean there was intent or culpability, a spokesperson for the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said, noting that’s a matter for the criminal justice system to determine. The Democratic mayor on Wednesday did not utter Penny’s name or mention the exact circumstances that led to the fatal chokehold. His death has ignited protests and calls for Penny’s arrest while refocusing attention on struggles with homelessness and mental illness across America.
Neely, 30, was restrained in a chokehold May 1 on a Manhattan subway by another rider, Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old US Marine veteran, after Neely began shouting he was hungry, thirsty and had little to live for. What happens to its vulnerable residents is an open question CNNĪ huge homeless camp will be cleared after neighbors sued. A person walks through a homeless encampment on April 18 in Phoenix.
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