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NEW YORK – The Marine seasoned on trial for the subway chokehold decease of Jordan Neely called an adept forensic pathologist to the witnesser basal Thursday – and helium came to a dramatically antithetic decision than the New York City Medical Examiner's Office.
"The chokehold did not origin the death," Dr. Satish Chundru testified.
Daniel Penny, 26, faces up to 15 years successful situation if convicted connected the apical complaint helium faces, manslaughter, for the decease of 30-year-old Neely.
Dr. Satish Chundru arrives astatine a Manhattan courthouse Thursday to attest successful the proceedings of Daniel Penny, a Marine seasoned accused of manslaughter successful the chokehold decease of Jordan Neely. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
He was connected his mode to the gym aft people astatine a New York assemblage successful May 2023 erstwhile Neely, a stateless antheral with schizophrenia and a cause habit, barged onto a subway car and shouted decease threats.
Dr. Chundru, a erstwhile Miami-area aesculapian examiner who present runs a backstage signifier successful Texas conducting autopsies successful a half-dozen counties, said that helium did not judge an aerial choke caused Neely's unconsciousness, and truthful did not origin his death.
Dr. Chundru said helium recovered the origin of decease to beryllium "the combined effects of sickle compartment crisis, the schizophrenia, the conflict and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana."
Someone schizophrenic, precocious connected K2 and progressive successful a conflict tin dice without a chokehold being progressive astatine all, helium said.
With the defence adept connected the stand, Dr. Cynthia Harris, who conducted the city's autopsy, looked connected from the audience. She testified for 3 days earlier successful the trial.
Daniel Penny arrives astatine Manhattan Supreme Court, Tuesday, November 19, 2024. Penny, a Marine veteran, is charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide successful the 2023 decease of Jordan Neely connected a New York City subway train. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Dr. Harris recovered it was the chokehold that killed Neely, not the synthetic drugs successful his system, his sickle compartment familial upset oregon cardiac arrest.
"This is simply a precise analyzable case," Dr. Chundru testified. "We person schizophrenia involved, sickle compartment trait involved, a chokehold."
And Neely had K2, a signifier of synthetic marijuana that experts testified is much similar cocaine, successful his toxicology report.
Jordan Neely is pictured earlier going to spot the Michael Jackson movie, "This is It," extracurricular the Regal Cinemas connected 8th Avenue and 42nd Street successful Times Square, New York, successful 2009. (Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Dr. Chundru said that an asphyxiation decease comes successful 2 phases: In the first, the idiosyncratic loses consciousness. In the second, sustained unit leads to death.
"What’s besides important is unconsciousness ever proceeds decease successful a chokehold," helium said.
Cynthia Harris, M.D. arrives for Daniel Penny’s proceedings astatine the Manhattan Criminal Court gathering successful New York City connected Friday, November 15, 2024. Penny, a Marine veteran, is charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide successful the 2023 decease of Jordan Neely connected a New York City subway train. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)
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But rendering idiosyncratic unconscious doesn't mean they're ever going to die, helium said. When you fto go, they typically aftermath up, helium said.
"In a sickle compartment crisis, decease is simply a deficiency of oxygen, truthful the aforesaid happening [in] an asphyxia death," helium said.
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