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May 6, 2023

Today: Claims that mother of subway chokehold victim was murdered in 2007, GOP voted to raise debt ceiling 3 times under Trump, and Ukraine was behind drone strike on Russia

Was Mother of Subway Chokehold Victim Jordan Neely Murdered in 2007?

On May 2, 2023, a former U.S. Marine put a "disturbed man," later identified as 30-year old Jordan Neely, into a chokehold on a New York City subway. The altercation ended in Neely's death.


Neely, a New York Police spokesperson said, had 42 prior arrests between 2013 and 2021. As later reporting would confirm, Neely's contact with the justice system began much earlier and is more complex than those incidents — he was a key witness in a trial against his mother's murderer in 2012.


Alex Kasprak reports.

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