Before he was killed, Jordan Neely said, 'I don't care if I die. I don't care if I go to jail. I don't have any food ... I'm done,' said Juan Alberto Vazquez, a witness who recorded the altercation on video.
"He told me about how much his mother's passing impacted him. He disclosed that she was murdered, and her body was put in a suitcase," Moses Harper, an artist who knew Neely, told CNN.
The last time Harper saw Neely was in 2016 when she bumped into him on the subway and saw he was experiencing homelessness when he asked passengers for food. "I had never seen him like that before," she said. "As part of our rigorous ongoing investigation, we will review the Medical Examiner's report, assess all available video and photo footage, identify and interview as many witnesses as possible, and obtain additional medical records," Manhattan District Attorney's Office spokesperson Doug Cohen said in a statement.
As soon as Neely got on the train, he started yelling about being "fed up and hungry" and "tired of having nothing," Vazquez told CNN. Then a rider came up behind Neely and put him in a chokehold, with the two eventually falling to the floor, said Vazquez, who noted Neely did not interact with that passenger at all prior to the attack.
In the years after, Neely began experiencing "some hard times" before high school ended, Melyssa Votta, a high school friend of Neely's, said.Through it all, Neely was "always a dancer" who was "a really good kid," she said. "I sat him in front of the TV and showed him the Jackson 5. ... He took on the Michael Jackson thing and he really formed it very well," Zachery told the newspaper.As of Thursday evening, no charges have been filed in Neely's killing, a move which has increased demands by officials and the community for legal action.
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