IRVING, Texas — Glasses clinked and voices rose inside Po’ Melvin’s on Wednesday night — a toast, not to a milestone, but to a man gone too soon.
Daniel Gormley, the restaurant’s longtime manager and bartender, was shot and killed Sept. 29 while riding a DART train home from Deep Ellum after celebrating his 53rd birthday.
“I took off work just to be here because I had to say goodbye somehow, someway,” said David Reyes, a regular who raised a glass in Gormley’s honor…