The deceased axe man.
Must be Motel/Hotel management.
McMillan was a sophomore transfer student from Fort Worth studying pre-hospitality.
Oh the irony!
What ever it is, he flunked his practicum.
“pre-hospitality?”
Cheaper to get the Velvet Jones home study course “How da be a Pimp”.
I was in a conversation with a veteran from back North this weekend.
He told me campuses in NY State now have campus cops who have arrest authority off-campus, because the response time with the county and state troopers is so bad, the campus cops are the closest ones.
It seems as if he might have celebrated his 21st birthday by mixing alcohol with pills.
“Pre-hospitality” — probably a WalMart Greeter In Training providing hospitality before the customer actually enters the store.
Or could be like Pre-Med, just slightly less challenging.
I guess Val Jarrett thinks we need axe control now, too.
I suspect that in pre-hospitality you start at the bottom, in the kitchen. Loading the dish washer racks and hauling the the garbage out to the dumpster. Fries and making change doesn’t happen until grad school.
Forgive my ignorance but WTH is “pre-hospitality?”
Well, I certainly hope you ain’t axin me. Cauz I ain’t got no I D.
“There’s going to be a gun fight? Hang on a moment — I’ll go get my axe.”
That was my question, too. And why is that a college major?
“Forgive my ignorance but WTH is “pre-hospitality?”.”
He was well on his way to earning $15/hr.
Hey, an axe wielding Pre-Hospitality student breaking car window(s) in a parking garage at 1 am sounds like he was looking for something to steal or was drunk as a skunk looking for his lost bottle of rum. Actions have consequences. He made a bad decision. A mans got to know his limitations.
But I am confused. Has the world gone completely nuts! WTH is a Pre-hospitality degree all about?. Parking cars?
The police should be required to go after the guy with an ax, not guns. Guns are evil.
Dalton LaFerney News Editor
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At the corner of Oak and Fry streets, about a dozen men stood on their lawn Sunday morning, yelling at the police in bewilderment, because they had just seen a man shot in the middle of the street.
"That was a senseless goddamn murder!" one yelled at the nearest police officer, Ryan Karnes, who was guarding the perimeter of the crime scene, where just an hour before Ryan McMillan was shot dead by a UNT police officer. Because he "advanced on" the officer, McMillan, who the day before turned 21, was shot.
"Four times! Point-blank range," a man from the house yelled.
Across the intersection from the men's house, which has a yellow Cheerio cereal box in a second-floor window, a man dressed in a white cowboy hat, a white dress shirt and a shiny badge hopped out of his dark Chevy pickup parked in the Christian Campus Center parking lot and stepped foot onto the crime scene.
The rain began to pour, but the investigation would not let up.
The man was a Texas Ranger, whose agency began investigating the shooting with UNT police, who placed the officer who shot McMillan on administrative leave. This is routine, officials at UNT said, for an officer-involved shooting.
The Denton Police Department is not participating in the shooting investigation, instead inquiring into the initial call, which was of criminal mischief in progress on the first floor of the U Centre parking garage. Thousands of dollars in damages to vehicles are expected.
Authorities do not know what led up to McMillan's death. The only bit of information released so far is that McMillan is alleged to have carried an axe, and UNT spokeswoman Margarita Venegas said the officer saw him smash at least one car window upon arrival to the intersection.
As officers sniffed for clues down on the street, a couple sat on their green-lit, second-floor balcony in an apartment next to the Zebra's Head on Fry Street. The couple was inside when the shots rang out; they did not see anything until the gunfire. When they stepped out, leaving behind two children, to observe the justice system at work, they saw a man in the street quickly scooped up, all within 30 minutes.
"Denton used to be so quiet," the mother, who did not offer her name, said, calling into question Denton's public safety at a time when the city has made numerous capital gains.
It was not minutes before she said that when the men finished cursing the police, one promising to be at the next City Council meeting.
"You better have your f--in' s-t together," one man from the house yelled. "You could have disarmed him," another followed.
As the two scenes unfolded, it seemed the men fine-tuned the reality the two parents down the street and up the stairs were coming to terms with: a man was shot in the street near their home.
One of the first faces at the scene was that of Ashley Jones, who said she saw McMillan just before police arrived.
She had only known him as an acquaintance but nonetheless said McMillan didn't seem quite right when she saw him that night. She rolled down her window to say "hello," but what she got in return was not the passing smile she saw on campus, but McMillan smashing the hood of her car with an axe.
Then the police showed up, there were shots "and that was it," Jones said.
Members of McMillan's family were confused Sunday, one relative said. They tried to gather as much as possible to understand why their loved one was killed that morning, and what led him to the end of a UNT police officer's gun on a street known for its bar scene.
The relative, who asked not to be identified, said McMillan was an easy-going and caring person.
After one of its officers shot and killed one of its students, who had just finished their first semester at the university, UNT's president, Neal Smatresk, emailed a statement early Sunday with condolences and few details about the investigation now taking place.
"When the officer arrived, he encountered a white male suspect in the street who was carrying an axe," Smatresk wrote. "The suspect advanced on the officer and the officer fired at the suspect, who sadly was one of our students. The suspect was the only person injured."
That McMillan was shot on Denton's street, under a UNT police operation, carries its own weight. The growth of the university has transformed the Fry Street area into a more commercial zone, particularly with the U Centre development, positioned to attract students looking for housing while studying.
And UNT is boasted as a great force in the Denton economy, itself a benefactor of UNT's manifest ambitions of the "four bold goals."
The early-morning storm at about 3 a.m. washed the couple upstairs, the men at the house, Jones and other witnesses indoors to find cover from the fall storm soon to be missed.
As the rain cleaned McMillan's blood from the streets, the storm signaled the season soon to change, with 2015, the year to be remembered as the year of viral police-involved shootings, following closely behind.
At another end was McMillan's first semester at UNT. He was a pre-hospitality sophomore and transfer student from Weatherford College.
In contrast with other, more high-profile officer-involved shootings, this one was between a white suspect and a white officer, though the question of how close McMillan got to the officer was unclear Sunday. As of Sunday evening, authorities did not say when the police camera footage would be released, but a request for that information has been made by the North Texas Daily.
One cannot find accurate data to visualize the fatality count of those killed by police in the United States because there is no warehouse for it. It is something FBI Director James Comey has called "ridiculous," because not even the feds know how many civilians authorities kill each year.
The Facebook group Killed By Police has a running count of those killed, or at least injured, in police-involved deaths. Its total, which included McMillan's death, was 1,134 for 2015. Likewise, The Washington Post newspaper gathers its own data, shown on its website as 921 people shot dead by police in 2015. The Guardian also runs a Twitter account called @thecounted, which gathers similar data.
As this investigation by both the family and the police continues into the holiday break, the details of McMillan's death and what occurred in the time leading up to it will be released as they come.
Updates will be posted when they are made available.
For now, here's what we are asking:
-What happened with McMillan in the days leading up to his death?
-What does police camera footage reveal?
-What are the results of the autopsy?
-What do police reports say? What is the police officer's name?
-How many rounds were fired into McMillan?
The deceased axe man.
It’s POST-HOSPITALITY NOW!
“Heeeeeeeere’s JOHNNY!”
I’m not sure what “pre-hospitality” is either, but it must require advanced classes before you learn that attacking a cop with an ax is forbidden.