Daniel Penny Makes Runway Debut After He is Acquitted of Murder

Daniel Penny — the person who was discovered not responsible of choking Jordan Neely to dying again in December — made his New York Metropolis runway debut Saturday evening.

The ex Marine strutted down the runway in a kilt — reportedly to Bonnie Tyler‘s “Holding Out for a Hero” — for a charity occasion titled “Dressed to Kilt” held on the Higher East Facet.

Notably, co-founder Geoffrey Scott Carroll launched him as a “hero,” applauding him for safeguarding girls, kids, and aged individuals on the NYC subway in Could 2023 when Neely allegedly started threatening them with a knife.

This is a refresher … Penny put Neely in a chokehold when he started performing “erratically” on the NYC subway. 30-year-old Neely — who authorities say did not have a weapon — died throughout the altercation, with the medical expert ruling his dying because of “compression of neck.”

Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent murder, however was in the end let off the hook for the lesser cost after the manslaughter cost was dropped.

Penny was described as a “proud New Yorker” on the vogue present … but additionally has roots in Scotland from the twelfth century, in accordance with Carroll.

It makes good sense he’d wish to be concerned — “Dressed to Kilt” is the most important Scottish vogue present on the planet and helps Veteran’s causes, such because the Navy Seal Basis.