The trial of Daniel Penny, the former Marine charged with killing Jordan Neely aboard a New York City subway, featured testimony from a man who helped the defendant restrain the victim.

The homicide detective who interviewed Daniel Penny shortly after he placed Jordan Neely in a chokehold on an uptown F train last year knew that Neely had died, he testified at Penny’s criminal trial Thursday. But Penny, he said, did not.

Daniel Penny appeared unaware that his chokehold on Jordan Neely had killed the homeless man — and tried to downplay the maneuver hours later, insisting he wasn’t “trying to kill the guy,” it was revealed in court Thursday.

A man who aided Daniel Penny while he restrained Jordan Neely in a lethal chokehold aboard a subway car in May 2023 recalled telling the former U.S. Marine he could safely release his grip from Neely’s neck in trial testimony on Tuesday.

A subway commuter who helped an ex-Marine restrain an agitated man aboard a Manhattan subway last year testified that he tried to convince the veteran to loosen his grip around the man’s neck.

Jordan Neely was killed aboard an NYC subway train in May 2023 by a white marine who calls himself trying to play hero. BOSSIP reported extensively on the incident in which that white man, Daniel Penny, applied a chokehold for so long that Neely eventually stopped breathing and died in front of a train car of commuters.

The man seen on video helping Daniel Penny restrain Jordan Neely on board the subway last year took the stand Tuesday on day five of witness testimony in Penny's trial.