The manner of death was ruled a homicide, but that determination is not a ruling on intent or culpability, which is for the criminal justice system to consider, the spokesperson said. Neely died Monday due to “compression of neck (chokehold),” a spokesperson for the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said. Manhattan prosecutors were conducting a “rigorous ongoing investigation” into the death of the 30-year-old man seen in a video being held in a chokehold and his arms restrained by another passenger. On Monday, after yelling at passengers on a New York subway train that he was hungry and thirsty and tired of having nothing, Neely was held in a chokehold by another rider and later died. After his mother was murdered in 2007, Jordan Neely eked out a living as a well-known Michael Jackson impersonator in Times Square and on New York’s subways.īut he apparently fell on hard times in recent years, according to a friend and a relative, finding himself living on the street and struggling with the trauma of losing his mother.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |