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Daniel Penny Biography – Daniel Penny Wiki

Daniel Penny is a former marine with the U.S. Marine Corps. He enlisted in the Marines in 2017, according to an official at the Marine Corps recruiting station in Queens. He was a non commissioned officer and was honorably discharged. In the military, he received several ribbons and awards common in peacetime activity, according to his military records, and was promoted to sergeant before leaving active duty in 2021.

Penny graduated from West Islip High School on the south shore of Long Island in 2016, according to the school’s yearbook. He was a lacrosse player, the news site Gothamist reported. He served four years with the U.S. Marine Corps from 2017 to 2021. After leaving the Marines, Penny took time to travel and then applied to colleges.

A person named Danny Penny with an identical military background posted on Harri.com, a website for those seeking work in the hospitality industry, that he had tried college, “felt completely unfulfilled” and “decided to drop out of school and backpack throughout Central America.”

He worked for several months, until May 2022, at a surf shop in North Carolina near the Marine base where he was last stationed, Camp Lejeune, The New York Times reported.

As at May 2023, he was pursuing a degree in architecture from the New York City College of Technology and planned to later transfer. He was living at an apartment in the East Village, teaching swim lessons at a gym and working at a restaurant in Brooklyn.

Daniel Penny Age

Ex-marine Daniel Penny was born in 1999 in Long Island, New York.

Daniel Penny Family

Daniel Penny grew up in a close knit family. His mother Gina Flaim-Penny, who lives in Queens, is both a teacher’s assistant and a caregiver for a woman with dementia. He has three sisters, Taylor Penny, Jackie Penny and Katie Penny. Katie is engaged to marry in December 2025. In February 2024, she gave birth to her daughter, Aurora.

Daniel Penny Height

Marine veteran Daniel Penny stands at a height of 6’2”.

Daniel Penny Verdict

Daniel Penny was acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide on December 9, 2024. The jurors decided that Penny’s actions were not criminal when he held a fellow subway rider, Jordan Neely, in a chokehold as the two men struggled on the floor of a subway car on May 1, 2023.

Neely, who was homeless and had a history of mental illness, had strode through the subway car that afternoon, yelling at passengers and frightening them, according to witnesses.

After the forewoman announced the verdict, the courtroom erupted, with some people cheering the outcome and others responding with anger. Upon hearing the words “not guilty,” Mr. Penny’s lawyer, Thomas A. Kenniff, slapped his palm on the defense table and turned to hug Mr. Penny, who had a large grin on his face. Another of his lawyers, Steven Raiser, stood and kissed his client on the cheek, The New York Times reported. Neely’s father, Andre Zachery, lashed out at supporters of Mr. Penny, and the judge asked him to leave the room.