Former hotel front desk worker pleads guilty to battery in Milwaukee man's death

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The 3rd of 4 erstwhile Milwaukee edifice workers accused of sidesplitting a antheral by pinning him to the crushed successful a dogpile past summertime reached a plea woody with prosecutors Thursday.

The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office initially charged erstwhile Hyatt beforehand table idiosyncratic Devin Johnson-Carson with being a enactment to felony execution successful transportation with D'Vontaye Mitchell's decease successful June 2024. Online tribunal records bespeak Johnson-Carson pleaded blameworthy to a reduced complaint of misdemeanor artillery connected Thursday.

The records didn't database immoderate further presumption of the deal, if any. Johnson-Carson's attorney, Craig Robert Johnson, didn't instantly instrumentality an email from The Associated Press seeking further details. The territory attorney's bureau besides didn't instantly respond to an email near successful the office's wide inbox.

Johnson-Carson present faces up to 9 months down bars erstwhile he's sentenced Sept. 3. If helium had been convicted of the felony execution number helium would person faced a maximum condemnation of 15 years successful prison.

According to investigators, Mitchell ran into the Hyatt's lobby and entered the women's bathroom. Two women aboriginal told them that Mitchell tried to fastener them successful the bathroom.

Security defender Brandon Turner and a impermanent scuffled with Mitchell and dragged him retired of the lobby onto a edifice driveway. Turner, different information defender named Todd Erickson, bellhop Herbert Williamson and Johnson-Carson each piled connected Mitchell, pinning him to the crushed for 8 to 9 minutes.

By the clip exigency responders arrived Mitchell had stopped breathing. The Milwaukee County aesculapian examiner determined that Mitchell was morbidly obese, suffered from bosom illness and had cocaine and methamphetamine successful his system. The aesculapian examiner concluded that helium suffocated and ruled the mode of decease arsenic homicide.

Attorneys for Mitchell's household person tried to gully parallels betwixt Mitchell's decease and the execution of George Floyd, a Black antheral who died successful 2020 aft a achromatic Minneapolis constabulary serviceman knelt connected his cervix for astir 9 minutes. Mitchell was Black. Court records place Erickson arsenic achromatic and Turner, Williamson and Johnson-Carson arsenic Black.

The 4 workers told investigators that Mitchell was beardown and tried to wound Erickson but they didn't mean to wounded him. Ambridge Hospitality, the institution that manages the hotel, fired each 4 workers successful July.

Erickson is acceptable to basal proceedings successful August connected 1 number of being enactment to felony murder.

Turner pleaded blameworthy earlier this period to being a enactment to felony execution successful a woody with prosecutors successful speech for his grounds against the different 3 men. Williamson was initially charged with being a enactment to felony execution but pleaded blameworthy to misdemeanor artillery past week successful speech for his testimony. They're some acceptable to beryllium sentenced connected Sept. 3.