Daniel Penny, a white former US marine who killed a homeless black man by placing him in a chokehold on a New York City subway, was charged with manslaughter on Friday.
Witnesses said Jordan Neely, who was known for his impersonations of Michael Jackson, was speaking loudly about being hungry and thirsty.
Mr Penny had approached Mr Neely and placed him in a chokehold that lasted for 15 minutes, one witness said.
Video footage showed two other men helping Mr Penny to restrain Mr Neely. The identities of the two men have not been revealed, and it is not clear if they will face similar charges.
Mr Neely's death was ruled as a homicide as a result of compression of the neck.
“Jordan Neely should still be alive today,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.
Mr Penny, from Long Island, surrendered to authorities in New York's Manhattan on Friday.
A lawyer for Mr Penny said he had turned himself in “voluntarily and with the sort of dignity and integrity that is characteristic of his history of service to this grateful nation”.
A judge authorised Mr Penny’s release on $100,000 bond and ordered him to surrender his passport and not to leave New York without approval.
Prosecutors said they were seeking a grand jury indictment.
Mr Penny is due back in court on July 17.
If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
Mr Neely's death sparked debate over the city's perceived failure to support homeless people struggling with mental health problems.
Friends of Mr Neely said he had a history of mental illness, and police said he had been arrested before. His mother was murdered, by strangulation, when he was 14 years old.
Mayor Eric Adams said Mr Neely's death should never have happened.
“My heart goes out to Jordan’s family, who are suffering great pain and uncertainty about the circumstances of his death,” Mr Adams said.
The New York City mayor was criticised last week over his initial response to Mr Neely's death, in which he said: “We cannot just blankly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.”
Agencies contributed to this report
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The flights
Etihad flies direct from Abu Dhabi to San Francisco from Dh5,760 return including taxes.
The car
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The hotels
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
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