Jurors have started deliberating in the trial of a military veteran charged with using a fatal chokehold to subdue a man whose behavior was alarming passengers on a New York subway train.

Deliberations in the case against Daniel Penny began Tuesday after prosecutors asked a Manhattan jury to determine he killed Jordan Neely “recklessly and needlessly.” State Supreme Court Justice Maxwell Wiley instructed panelists on how to deliberate the case for around an hour before handing it off to them at around 1:15 p.