Fourth Milwaukee hotel worker accused in D’Vontaye Mitchell’s death pleads guilty to felony murder
The last of the four Milwaukee hotel worker accused of killing a man Fix it He was found guilty of being a party for heavy murder.
According to online court records, former Hyatt Hotel Security Officer Todd Erickson appealed in connection with the death of D’Vontaye Mitchell on Thursday morning at Milwaukee District Circuit Court.
Erickson began to be tried on 11 August. When he was sentenced to 3 September, he was sentenced to imprisonment of up to 15 years. His lawyer, Kerri Cleghorn, did not return an voicemail immediately in his office.
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According to the inspectors, Mitchell ran into the lobby of Hyatt in June 2024 and entered the women’s bath. Two women later told the detectives that Mitchell was trying to lock them in the bathroom.
Security guard Brandon Turner took Mitchell out of the bathroom and dragged him into a hotel car road from the lobby. Turner, Erickson, Bellhop Herbert Williamson and the front office worker Devin Johnson-Carson, according to a guilty complaint, continued to fight Mitchell before taking him to the ground and dating him.
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The hotel surveillance video showed that Johnson-Carson was holding Mitchell’s legs, while Erickson, Turner and Williamson held their upper body. They held him for eight to nine minutes. When the emergency intervention teams arrived, Mitchell had stopped breathing.
A medical examination expert later determined that Mitchell was an obese, suffered from heart disease and that cocaine and methamphetamine in his system. The medical examination concluded that he was drowned and He ruled a murder.
For Mitchell’s family, lawyers likened his death to the murder of Floyd, a black man who died in 2020 after a white minneapolis police officer kneeling about nine minutes of his neck. Floyd’s death launched a national reckoning on racial relations.
Mitchell was black. Court records Erickson as White and Turner, Williamson and Johnson-Carson black.
Four workers told the inspectors that Mitchell was strong and tried to bite Erickson, but he did not want to harm him. Ambridge Hospitality, the company that manages Hyatt, expelled four of its four in July 2024.
Turner, Williamson and Johnson-Carson were accused of being a party with Erickson. Turner begged He was guilty of this count last March. Williamson and Johnson-Carson both found guilty of reduced misdemeanor battery The same month. All three will be sentenced to 3 September with Erickson.
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