The death of New York City subway rider and familiar Michael Jackson street impersonator Jordan Neely has been ruled a homicide, the city’s medical examiner said Wednesday night.
Neely had been placed in a chokehold by a fellow subway rider Monday after the homeless man began screaming at passengers and behaving erratically. In a widely viewed cellphone video shared on social media by another passenger, the 30-year-old Neely can be seen struggling as another rider — later identified only as a 24-year-old man with prior military training — holds him in a chokehold on the subway floor.
The man who taped the incident has said that Neely entered the subway car yelling about being hungry and thirsty, and shouted: “I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison. I’m ready to die.” Some reports suggest Neely had made threatening comments and that he then took off his...
Neely had been placed in a chokehold by a fellow subway rider Monday after the homeless man began screaming at passengers and behaving erratically. In a widely viewed cellphone video shared on social media by another passenger, the 30-year-old Neely can be seen struggling as another rider — later identified only as a 24-year-old man with prior military training — holds him in a chokehold on the subway floor.
The man who taped the incident has said that Neely entered the subway car yelling about being hungry and thirsty, and shouted: “I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison. I’m ready to die.” Some reports suggest Neely had made threatening comments and that he then took off his...
- 5/4/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
New details have emerged about Erik Cowie's passing, one month after his untimely death. A medical examiner ruled the 52-year-old zookeeper, who appeared in Netflix's viral hit, Tiger King, passed away from acute and chronic alcohol use, Julie Bolcer of the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to E! News. The manner of death was found to be natural. Authorities previously confirmed to E! News that police found a 52-year-old unconscious male unconscious inside a New York bedroom on Sept. 3 after responding to a 911 call. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Citing law enforcement sources, TMZ reported Erik was found dead at an apartment of a friend he was...
- 10/19/2021
- E! Online
Erik Cowie, the onetime Joe Exotic ally who cared for the animals in his zoo, died of acute and chronic alcohol use, the N.Y.C. Medical Examiner’s office announced Monday.
The cause of death was confirmed to Variety by Julie Bolcer at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner.
On Sept. 3, Cowie, 52, was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment by “police responding to a 911 call of an unconscious male inside of 21 East 55 Street in the confines of the 67 Precinct.” According to the NYPD’s official statement, Ems was on scene and pronounced the man dead.
Cowie was a zookeeper at Exotic’s G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Okla., and was featured on Netflix’s hit docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.” He was charged with a DUI in Oklahoma in May, and spoken on the show about his struggles with alcohol.
Even after Exotic went to prison,...
The cause of death was confirmed to Variety by Julie Bolcer at the NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner.
On Sept. 3, Cowie, 52, was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment by “police responding to a 911 call of an unconscious male inside of 21 East 55 Street in the confines of the 67 Precinct.” According to the NYPD’s official statement, Ems was on scene and pronounced the man dead.
Cowie was a zookeeper at Exotic’s G.W. Zoo in Wynnewood, Okla., and was featured on Netflix’s hit docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.” He was charged with a DUI in Oklahoma in May, and spoken on the show about his struggles with alcohol.
Even after Exotic went to prison,...
- 10/18/2021
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
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