Already, detectives have interviewed more than half-a-dozen witnesses and are still looking to talk to "four or five more" who had close-in vantage points to what occurred. The marine vet seen on video restraining Jordan Neely has provided his version of events to investigators. He told police he was not trying to kill Neely, but only trying to hold him for police. The vet as well as other witnesses told detectives that Neely had been acting out on the subway car and a sense of fear had taken hold among passengers, but it was a sense of fear of the unknown.
Neely had not become violent and had not been threatening anyone in particular. The source said the sense of fear is the type of typical reaction New York subway riders feel when someone is ranting, raving and acting out in the confines of a moving train car (also, police note there is a real fear of surging crime and mental illness that is now coursing through the population of a post-pandemic city).
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