‘A Toast to Daniel’: Po’ Melvin’s honors manager killed on DART train as safety concerns take spotlight

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…

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