The frustrated father of subway chokehold victim Jordan Neely demanded answers and an arrest in his son’s shocking death as authorities again remained mute Friday about criminal charges in the lethal confrontation.
“I just want something to be done,” dad Andre Zachery, 59, told The Daily News. “Obviously he was calling for help … He wasn’t out to hurt nobody. He was a good kid and a good man too. Something has to be done.”
Zachery was upset by the lack of criminal charges in Monday’s fatal encounter captured on video by a straphanger, with Neely placed in a headlock by Marine veteran Daniel Penny aboard the northbound F train below Manhattan.
Four days later, the devastated dad was still waiting for word from city authorities on his son’s death.
“That man, he’s still walking around right now,” said Zachery of Penny. “My son didn’t deserve to die because he needed help.”
New details emerged Friday about the chaotic scene on the northbound F train, with a transit source telling The News that two terrified straphangers inaccurately reported to the train operator that the unarmed Neely was carrying a weapon.
One female rider said a man in the second car had a gun and gestured to her waistband, the operator told detectives. And a male passenger informed the operator that the man had a gun or a knife, with other passengers already restraining the 30-year-old Neely in the same car.
An internal MTA report indicated the train operator reported “an unruly passenger armed with a gun and knife being subdued by passengers in car #9774″ and requested NYPD assistance from the MTA’s Rail Control Center at 2:25 p.m.
“They were scared,” the train operator reportedly told police of the rattled riders.
A police source said toxicology tests on Neely were incomplete, and his death was ruled a homicide by the city medical examiner.
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