‘I Was Scared’: High School Student Describes Frightening Subway Scene as Jury in Marine’s Trial Watches Michael Jackson Impersonator’s Final Moments
Another witness testified that he saw the Michael Jackson impersonator, Jordan Neely, soiling himself, and warned the defendant, Daniel Penny, to let go of Neely, that he was killing him.

Prosecutors on Monday presented “the most critical piece of evidence” at the trial of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who put a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway last year. Video of the tragic incident, recorded by freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vázquez on his cellphone, which went viral and triggered city-wide protests, was played in court on Monday.
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