As the jury in the Daniel Penny trial continues its deliberations, Andre Zachery, the father of Jordan Neely—who died after Penny put him into a chokehold on a Manhattan subway last year—has filed a civil lawsuit against Penny.
Donte Mills, of the law firm Mills & Edwards, filed his complaint with the Supreme Court of the State of New York on Dec. 5, rather than a lower jurisdiction because, as the complaint states, the plaintiff seeks damages greater than they could grant.