Former hotel security guard advocates guilty of Milwaukee's death

Milwaukee – Milwaukee (AP) – a former security guard at a Milwauke hotel was guilty of killing a man who died after being fixed to the ground for several minutes.

Brandon Turner and three other Hyatt hotel employees were accused last summer with a number of murder in connection with the connection with The death of D’Vontaye Mitchell of June 30.

Turner agreed with a plea agreement and could receive probation in exchange for the testimony against the other accused men, according to WDJT-TV. His conviction hearing is scheduled for September 3.

Associated Press left on Thursday, telephone messages looking for comments from Turner’s lawyer and prosecutors.

According to judicial documents and videos, Mitchell entered Hyatt’s lobby and entered the women’s bathroom. Later, two women told investigators that Mitchell tried to block them in the bathroom.

Turner and a guest at the hotel thrown with Mitchell and eventually dragged him on a hall. The Security guard Todd Erickson, Bellhop Herbert Williamson and the reception worker become Johnson-Carson joined Turner to put Mitchell down for nine minutes, according to judicial documents. When the emergency respondents arrived, Mitchell had stopped moving.

The office of the medical examiner of Milwaukee County established that Mitchell was obese morbid and suffering from heart disease. He also had cocaine and methamphetamine in his system. The office has established that he had suffocated and led the way of death as a homicide.

Lawyers for Mitchell’s family, and resembled death to kill George Floyd, A black man who died in 2020 after a white police officer Minneapolis knelt down the neck for about nine minutes. Mitchell was also black. Judicial records identify Erickson as white and Turner, Williamson and Johnson-Carson as black.

The four workers told investigators Mitchell and tried to bite Erickson, but they didn’t want to do it intentionally.

Aimbridge Hospitality, the company that manages the hotel, fired the four workers in July.

Judicial records show a pleading hearing on March 13 for Williamson, a pleading hearing on March 30 for Johnson-Carson and a pre-process hearing from June 27 scheduled for Erickson.

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