Daniel Penny to join Trump's suite at Army-Navy football game

Daniel Penny, the veteran who was acquitted of negligent homicide in the subway choking death of Jordan Neely, has been invited by Vice President-elect JD Vance to join Donald Trump's suite at the Army-Navy football game in Maryland on Saturday. Vance said 26-year-old Penny has accepted his invitation.

Penny, a Marine veteran, was found not guilty earlier this week of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely's 2023 death. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed last week. The vice president-elect invited Penny to be his personal guest at the game Saturday, in Landover, Maryland, a source familiar with the invitation told CBS News. Vance, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, has said "justice was done" in the case, and Penny shouldn't have been prosecuted in the first place. 

"Daniel's a good guy, and New York's mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone," Vance said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "I'm grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he's able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage."