(The Lion) — The former Marine who put an unruly man on a subway train in a headlock was found not guilty on Monday on charges related to the man’s death.

“A Manhattan jury delivered the verdict, clearing Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s death last year,” the AP reports.

The jury was initially deadlocked on the more serious charge of manslaughter, which the judge dismissed, the AP also reported.

The incident occurred in May 2023 when the 26-year-old Penny held Neely in a chokehold for around six minutes after Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia, “barged onto the train shouting death threats while high on a type of synthetic marijuana known as K2,” Fox News reported.

Penny’s defense argued his actions were to defend himself and other subway riders from Penny.