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Edwin Rios in New York

New York subway rider killed performer via chokehold, authorities say

The confrontation took place as an F train traveling north reached the Broadway-Lafayette station in SoHo.
The confrontation took place as an F train traveling north reached the Broadway-Lafayette station in SoHo. Photograph: Paul Martinka/AP

A 30-year-old Black man who regularly danced in the Times Square transit hub was killed on Monday by a rider who put him in a chokehold on the New York City subway.

The confrontation took place as an F train traveling north reached the Broadway-Lafayette station in SoHo. Witnesses say Jordan Neely, recognizable to some New Yorkers as a Michael Jackson impersonator, was behaving erratically at the time. Video footage captured by Juan Alberto Vazquez, a freelance journalist, and shared on Facebook, showed Neely kicking as he was held down by passengers.

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