After 37 days, the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office finally issued felony murder charges against 4 Hyatt Regency Hotel/Aimbridge Hospitality employees in connection with the brutal and cold blooded homicide of Dvontaye L. Mitchell.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
August 6, 2024
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Tuesday, the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office after 37 days finally filed felony murder charges against 4 Hyatt Regency Hotel/Aimbridge Hospitality employees, Todd Alan Erickson, 60, a security guard; Devin W. Johnson-Carson, 23, a front desk attendant; Herbert T. Williamson, 52, a bellhop, and Brandon LaDaniel Turner, 35, a security guard in connection with the brutal and cold blooded homicide of Dvontaye L. Mitchell, 43, on June 30, 2024 at the Milwaukee downtown Hyatt Regency Hotel.
A warrant for all the suspects was issued on Tuesday, according to Milwaukee County court records.
If convicted, each suspect is facing up to 15 years and 9 months in prison for felony murder.
Both Erickson and Williamson are convicted felons.
Attorney William Sulton, one of three attorneys who represents the Mitchell family confirmed that there were more than 4 people involved. (1) off duty security, (2) hotel guest, (3) on duty security, (4) front desk manager, (5) bellman, (6) front desk agent, (7) 2nd on duty security, and more. Sulton and Mitchell's family will continue to pursue criminal charges against all the suspects involved in Mitchell's homicide, according to Sulton.
Sulton says that the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office took to long to file felony murder criminal charges compared to other County felony criminal cases, most likely because the victim was Black.
Attorneys Sulton, B'ivory Lamarr and Ben Crump have said, that Milwaukee County has two justice systems, one for Whites and one for people of color. Whites get immediate justice, while Blacks get justice delayed under Milwaukee County District Attorney John T. Chisholm who is not running for reelection.
Indoor and outdoor videos made public by Sulton and multiple eye witnesses that cellphone recorded Mitchell's last moments alive showed that Mitchell never threw a punch at the suspects during the homicide incident. Mitchell was beaten with a retractable metal baton, punched multiple times and kicked to death by the suspects who held him down causing Mitchell to died from restraint asphyxia, and the autopsy indicated Mitchell had broken ribs as well and other trauma injuries to the back of his upper body torso that contributed to his murder, according to the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office.
According to the criminal complaint, Mitchell does not instigate any violence or display any obviously aggressive or threatening behavior while on the (Hyatt) hotel premises, (indoor videos indicate).
The criminal complaint says, that Theresa Ball, 37, the Hyatt Regency front desk manager, allegedly struck Mitchell twice with a broom as he was being dragged out of the hotel by Turner and a hotel guest only identified as SB in the criminal complaint. Ball and SB have not been criminally charged, but Attorney Sulton and Mitchell's family are pressuring Milwaukee County D.A. Chisholm to file criminal charges. (Video: https://youtu.be/htHro3FhlgQ)
Update: As of Friday, August 9, 2024, Todd A. Erickson, Devin W. Johnson-Carson, Herbert T. Williamson and Brandon LaDaniel Turner are in custody and booked for felony murder and party to a crime in the Milwaukee County jail.
Cash bail for Erickson was set at $50,000, Turner at $30,000 and Devin W. Johnson-Carson at $5,000.
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