Ex-Marine Daniel Penny says he thought subway rider Jordan Neely could have ‘killed somebody'
watched an erratic homeless man allegedly threaten to murder terrified passengers on a New York City subway — including women and children — he said he felt a moral obligation to act.who spoke to his high school class about the Holocaust after the students read"Night," the author’s autobiographical account of Nazi death camps.
"If [Neely] had carried out his threats, he would have killed somebody," said Penny, who remains so traumatized by the experience he has not boarded a subway train since. Penny, who spoke with Fox News Digital from his lawyers’ office via Zoom, wore a black suit and blue button-down shirt as he came across timid and at ease as his case continues to draw intense scrutiny.
Neely, who suffered from mental illness and had a long history of violent attacks on subway riders, stormed onto the train at the Second Avenue station in Manhattan at about 2:30 p.m., screaming and threatening passengers. She recalled Neely ranting,"I don’t care if I have to kill an F, I will. I’ll go to jail, I’ll take a bullet."
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