Jordan Neeley’s death was a direct result of the chokehold Daniel Penny held him in, a medical examiner testified Friday, rebutting assertions from the defense team that the former Marine did not apply enough pressure to kill the subway rider and that his death could have had some other cause.

A psychiatric expert testifying in Daniel Penny’s defense said Jordan Neely had one of the most severe histories of paranoid schizophrenia he has ever reviewed.

This week, Daniel Penny was finally portrayed in court as a peaceful, compassionate man hardwired to intervene on behalf of strangers in peril.

The witness said that he looked up from his phone and saw Daniel Penny struggling with Jorden Neely on the floor of the train and heard other bystanders ask those around them to call the police.

A doctor from the City chief medical examiner’s office said the likelihood Jordan Neely died from drug use or poor health — as Daniel Penny’s lawyers have proposed — was “vanishingly low” as the prosecution rested their manslaughter case against the former Marine Monday.

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.

The medical examiner who ruled Jordan Neely's death was a homicide caused by Daniel Penny's chokehold insisted Friday she'd still by the ruling.