Former Marine Daniel Penny honored for actions on New York subway: 'Service and sacrifice'
Award given for 'service and sacrifice', at event commemorating the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima
By Alexandra Koch Fox News
Published February 19, 2025 8:46pm EST
Daniel Penny, the subject of a high profile manslaughter trial, was presented on Wednesday with the Semper Fidelis achievement award by the Marine Corps League at an Iwo Jima Day event in Boston, Massachusetts.
Penny was acquitted last year in the 2023 killing of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway.
Prosecutors asked the court to dismiss the main manslaughter charge to avoid a hung jury, and they ultimately found Penny not guilty of the lesser charge, Fox News Digital previously reported.
Penny's defense attorneys, Thomas Kenniff and Steve Raiser, traveled with him to the award ceremony and were also presented with appreciation plaques, according to a statement provided to Fox News Digital by Raiser, first reported by the New York Post.
The league honored Penny for "representing the Esprit De Corps of the Marines, defined by selfless service and sacrifice, when he risked his life by defending the people on that NYC train," Raiser wrote in the statement.
His lawyers, in turn, "defended Danny from a prosecution that never should have been sought," according to the statement.
Outside of the State House, Brig. General Enoch "Woody" Woodhouse, one of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, took Penny's hand, looked him in the eye and said, "I'm proud of you, son," according to Kenniff.
"That is a moment I don't think any of us will forget," Kenniff said.
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