A mother told Manhattan jurors Friday that she was so frightened of a “belligerent and unhinged” Jordan Neely that she barricaded her 5-year-old son behind his stroller, while another subway rider testified she was “scared s—tless” by the homeless man’s rantings .
Lori Sitro, a research director and mother of two, had been on the uptown F train taking her young son to a therapy appointment when she noticed a “commotion” from Neely, who had begun shouting, she said at the manslaughter trial of Marine vet Daniel Penny.
“He was shouting in people’s faces,” Sitro recalled of Neely, who she said yelled, “‘I don’t have water! I don’t have food! I don’t have a home! … I want to go to Rikers, I want to go to prison!’ “
Neely started “lunging” in different people’s directions, Sitro said, later demonstrating the movement for jurors.