A Kitchen Table in Weakley County, the Morning After
Nicole, your husband Derrick was thirty-seven. He had been a deputy with the Weakley County Sheriff’s Office for years — the kind of officer who answered the call without checking the clock, because that is what he signed up to do. He kissed you goodbye in the small hours of January 30, 2026, and headed out to a Days Inn on a report of possible shots fired. He never came home. You are now raising a seven-year-old, a four-year-old, and a three-year-old without the man whose badge was on the dresser. Your children will grow up answering questions about their father from teachers, from coaches, from friends who do not understand what it means to lose a parent to gunfire at three in the morning.
We are sorry for what has happened to your family. We are a trial firm that has spent decades standing beside families in West Tennessee and across this state when a commercial property, a roadway, or a corporate defendant failed to protect someone they should have protected. The page below is the unfiltered truth about what Tennessee law permits your family to do, who can be held accountable for the danger that night, and what your family can realistically recover. We have taken no action on your case. We are telling you what we know so you can decide, on your own time, whether to call us.
If you want to skip the law and talk to a person, that call is free, confidential, and twenty-four hours a day: 1-888-ATTY-911.
What Happened at the Days Inn on January 30, 2026
Around 3:00 a.m. on January 30, 2026, deputies with the Weakley County Sheriff’s Office were responding to a report of possible shots fired at the Days Inn in Martin, Tennessee. As deputies were arriving at the scene, they observed a vehicle leaving the gas station adjacent to the motel. The driver of that vehicle fired shots at the responding officers. Deputy Derrick Bonham, age 37, was struck. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died. A suspect was taken into custody at the scene by Martin police officers. The Weakley County Sheriff’s Office identified Deputy Bonham as the fallen officer and announced that he leaves behind his wife Nicole of nine years and three young children, ages 7, 4, and 3.
“His loss is immeasurable, and our hearts remain with his family as they navigate this unimaginable grief.” — Weakley County Sheriff’s Office, on the death of Deputy Derrick Bonham.
The mechanical facts of what happened at that Days Inn at 3 a.m. are not yet a complete public record. What is already clear is the chain that has to be examined: a budget motel with a parking lot where vehicles can leave at speed after gunfire is reported; an adjacent gas station; a suspect whose presence, behavior, and intent should be the subject of a formal evidentiary record; and a responding officer who died doing exactly what the public hired him to do. The rest of this page is about what your family can do under Tennessee law about all of it.
The Tennessee Law That Protects Your Family
Tennessee’s wrongful death statute gives the surviving spouse and children the right to bring a civil action when a death is caused by the “wrongful act, neglect, or default” of another. The statute is Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-5-106, and it is the door your family walks through.
Tennessee uses a modified comparative fault rule with a 50% bar, meaning a plaintiff can recover damages as long as the plaintiff’s share of fault is less than 50%. Tennessee law does not allow the defense to blame a victim who is deceased and unable to speak for himself — the doctrine of the “empty chair” is alive in Tennessee, and where a non-party is at fault, that fault does not automatically reduce the family’s recovery. Tennessee generally measures damages under Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-5-113, which allows recovery for the “pecuniary value” of the life lost — meaning the financial support, services, guidance, and society the family has been deprived of, plus the conscious pain and suffering of the decedent before death, and the loss of consortium and guidance to the surviving spouse and minor children.
Tennessee also imposes a statutory cap on non-economic damages in most civil cases — commonly understood as $750,000 per plaintiff — set by the Tennessee Civil Justice Reform Act. That cap, however, does not apply where the defendant intended to cause serious bodily injury, or was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the wrongful act. Where a defendant opens fire on a responding deputy, that intentional-conduct waiver is the basis for arguing the cap does not apply to claims against the shooter, and the same waiver logic can be deployed against a commercial defendant whose conduct rose to the level of conscious disregard for known risks.
“An individual who is a victim of a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action against the perpetrator (or whoever knowingly benefits, or attempts or conspires to benefit, financially or by receiving anything of value from participation in a venture which that person knew or should have known has engaged in an act in violation of this chapter) in an appropriate district court of the United States and may recover damages and reasonable attorneys fees.” — 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a), the federal anti-trafficking civil remedy, illustrating the principle that knowingly benefiting from foreseeable criminal conduct can carry direct liability.
The statute of limitations for a Tennessee wrongful death action is one (1) year from the date of death, governed by Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104, the personal-injury limitations provision applied to wrongful death in Tennessee. The clock started on January 30, 2026. Waiting is the single most expensive mistake a grieving family can make in this kind of case — not because the courthouse door is closing tomorrow, but because the proof that wins these cases starts dying within seventy-two hours.
Why the “Firefighter’s Rule” Does Not Protect the Commercial Defendants
When a commercial defendant is sued over an injury to a first responder, it almost always raises the so-called “Firefighter’s Rule” — a common-law doctrine that grew out of cases involving a firefighter injured by the very negligence that brought the fire department to the scene. Modern Tennessee jurisprudence has narrowed this rule dramatically. The Firefighter’s Rule, as it survives today in Tennessee, generally bars a first responder from suing the person whose underlying negligence occasioned the original emergency — for example, the homeowner whose carelessly discarded cigarette started the fire. It does not shield a third-party tortfeasor whose negligence is independent of the reason the officer was called.
A Days Inn, the franchise entity that licenses the brand, and the adjacent gas station are not the people who fired the shots. Their negligence — if proven — is in failing to maintain a reasonably safe premises despite foreseeable risk. Modern Tennessee law permits exactly that kind of claim. The Wrongful Death Act itself, Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-5-106, was drafted to apply to “wrongful act, neglect, or default” — language broad enough to cover a commercial property that knew or should have known of danger and failed to act.
In addition, where a commercial defendant has acted with conscious indifference to known risks, or where the danger was so foreseeable that ignoring it amounts to recklessness, Tennessee recognizes causes of action for gross negligence and punitive damages. The statutory cap on non-economic damages (the $750,000 ceiling) is waived where the defendant intended to cause serious bodily injury or was under the influence — and that waiver concept has been used in Tennessee to push beyond the cap where the defendant’s conduct crossed a recognized threshold.
The Defendant Map: Who Your Family Can Actually Sue
A wrongful death case against a Days Inn shooting is not a single-defendant case. The Tennessee civil docket permits your family to pursue every party whose conduct foreseeably contributed to the danger, and the experienced trial attorney walks that map early because some of these defendants have assets and insurance, and some do not.
The shooter. The suspect taken into custody by Martin police officers is the obvious first target. The shooter carries direct liability for the intentional tort of battery and for the wrongful death itself. The challenge is recovery: a person willing to fire on a deputy at 3 a.m. is unlikely to have meaningful insurance or assets. That does not mean he is not named — it means he is named so that any future recovery (criminal restitution, a wrongful-death judgment that follows him for life, post-prison earnings) is preserved.
The Days Inn / Hotel Management Entity. Days Inn is a brand licensed by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. The actual operating entity — the LLC that owns or leases this specific Martin property and runs the front desk — is almost always a separate legal entity. We pull the franchise agreement, the local operating company, and the parent franchisor to identify the right defendants. The negligent-security theory here is straightforward: budget motels in roadside locations are recognized in law-enforcement and hospitality-industry data as elevated-risk environments for violent crime. The questions your family will be asking in litigation are whether the property had adequate lighting, controlled key-card access, working exterior cameras, after-hours staffing, prior-incident documentation, and whether management had actual or constructive notice of violent crime on or near the property in the months and years before this shooting. A prior call for service to this exact address is the kind of “foreseeability” evidence that converts ordinary negligence into gross negligence and supports punitive damages under Tennessee law.
The gas station owner/operator. The shooter was observed leaving the gas station adjacent to the motel just before shots were fired. The gas station is a separate premises with its own duty of care — and its own cameras, its own staffing, its own incident records. Whether the gas station had any role in the sequence — whether the suspect was there for a sustained period, whether employees saw anything, whether the property layout contributed to the attack vector — is something the evidence will tell us once we subpoena and review.
The Wyndham franchisor. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts licenses the Days Inn brand and sets operational standards. A franchisor is generally not liable for the day-to-day operations of a franchisee — but Tennessee does not give franchisors a free pass. If the franchisor exercised operational control over security protocols, training, signage, and standards, or if it directly benefited from the franchise fees generated by a property that ignored known risks, the franchisor can be named and pursued. The franchisor-defendant theory is one we explore in every motel-negligent-security case.
The practical effect of mapping the defendant web is that a verdict can collect against solvent defendants even where the shooter is judgment-proof. Civil recovery in a case like this rarely depends on the shooter; it depends on the insurance towers behind the motel operator, the gas station owner, and the franchisor.
The Evidence Clock — What Exists, Who Holds It, and How Fast It Disappears
A line-of-duty shooting case has more perishable evidence than almost any other civil case we handle. The trial that decides this will be built on records that exist right now and that — without an immediate preservation demand — will be gone inside weeks.
The hotel’s CCTV footage is the single most critical piece of evidence in this case. Federal Tennessee law does not impose a uniform retention requirement on private hotel security video, but industry-standard retention on commercial CCTV systems is commonly a rolling thirty-day overwrite cycle, and many systems overwrite on a shorter loop. That means the parking lot video, the lobby video, the corridor video, and any camera at the gas station next door are at risk of being permanently overwritten before the end of February 2026. Our preservation letter goes out the same day your family calls us. It will demand that the property, the management company, the franchisor, the gas station owner, and any third-party security vendor preserve and sequester all footage from January 29 through February 1, 2026, and that any auto-overwrite functionality be disabled.
The police dispatch and radio logs establish the timeline of the original shots-fired call, the responding units, the time Deputy Bonham arrived on scene, and the precise movements of the suspect’s vehicle. These are public records held by the Weakley County Sheriff’s Office, the Martin Police Department, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, but they often take weeks to be produced. The earlier we request them, the faster we can verify the official version of events against the physical and video evidence.
Prior calls for service and incident history at the Days Inn and the gas station are the foreseeability spine of the negligent-security claim. Property owners almost always have these records, and almost always have a strong incentive to characterize them as routine, but those records exist. They are obtained through Tennessee’s public records law and through civil discovery. A motel that has had numerous prior police calls — domestic disturbances, drug activity, fights, shootings — and that did not upgrade its security is a motel that had notice.
The suspect’s social media and communications are held by the suspect himself, by his phone carrier, and by the platforms he used. Once the suspect is in custody, his devices are subject to search warrants in the criminal case. Civil counsel coordinates with law enforcement through proper channels and uses the criminal discovery file in the civil case. This evidence can establish motive, intent, prior threats against law enforcement, and gang or drug affiliations that connect to a known pattern of risk at the property.
The property’s incident reports, maintenance logs, and housekeeping logs document whether management knew about broken lights, broken locks, missing cameras, malfunctioning key-card systems, or prior criminal activity. These are internal business records; their preservation window depends on the property’s document retention policy, but most chain-operated motels cycle out routine records on a twelve-to-twenty-four-month basis.
The 911 audio and CAD (computer-aided dispatch) data captures the original shots-fired call in the caller’s own voice. It is the most contemporaneous record of what was reported to law enforcement in the minutes before Deputy Bonham arrived. CAD logs are public records.
We send preservation letters to the hotel, the gas station, the franchisor, the security vendor, the local police, the sheriff’s office, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation within seventy-two hours of your family retaining us. Every day you wait is a day the evidence can die.
The Insurance-Adjuster Playbook — Three Plays You Will See and How We Counter Them
A Days Inn negligent-security case will involve an insurance adjuster, and adjusters run a predictable playbook. Here are the three plays you are most likely to see in this case and how we counter each one.
Play 1: “We’re not the right defendant — the shooter is.” This is the most common opening move. The adjuster will point at the suspect and say the commercial defendant bears no responsibility because the conduct was criminal. The counter is that Tennessee law has long held that a commercial property owner owes a duty to invitees and the public to take reasonable measures against foreseeable criminal conduct, and that duty exists independently of whether the criminal is identified. The negligent-security claim is not that the motel caused the shooting — it is that the motel failed to take reasonable precautions against the foreseeable risk of violent crime on its premises, and that failure is its own negligence under Tennessee law.
Play 2: “We had no notice this could happen.” The adjuster will produce a clean operating history and claim the motel had no idea the property was dangerous. The counter is twofold: first, motel and gas station locations on highways and at interchanges are statistically elevated-risk environments for violent crime — that is not a secret, it is in the hospitality industry’s own risk literature and in insurance underwriting data; second, the actual prior-incident history at this specific address, and at comparable Wyndham/Days Inn properties in the region, will be the discovery target. If there were prior police calls, prior incidents, prior 86-ing of guests, prior drug activity, prior complaints about lighting or cameras — that record is going to surface, and “no notice” becomes “ignored notice.”
Play 3: “We’ll offer policy limits to make this go away, but only if you sign a release today.” This is the fast-settlement pressure play. It will arrive before discovery has begun, before the video has been fully reviewed, before the prior-incident records have been subpoenaed, and before a life-care economist has put a number on what Deputy Bonham’s expected earnings and household services would have been across the rest of his career. The counter is simple: do not sign a release for less than full value. Policy-limits settlements paid early are almost always a fraction of what discovery eventually uncovers. Tennessee’s wrongful-death damages — pecuniary loss, loss of consortium, loss of guidance to minor children, conscious pain and suffering of the decedent, and punitive damages where the conduct warrants — are measured across the full life Nicole and the children would have had with Derrick, not against the convenience of the adjuster’s calendar.
The insurance company is going to send a polite representative who is going to express sympathy and ask for a recorded statement. Do not give a recorded statement to the property’s insurance carrier before speaking to a lawyer. Recorded statements taken within days of a death are designed to lock in a narrative favorable to the insurer. There is no requirement that you give one.
What the Case Is Worth
Every case is its own case, and no lawyer can guarantee a specific dollar result. What we can tell you is the framework Tennessee uses to value a line-of-duty wrongful death case, and the realistic ranges we have seen in similar motel negligent-security cases.
The economic damages in a line-of-duty death of a thirty-seven-year-old deputy are substantial. They include the projected wages and benefits Deputy Bonham would have earned across the rest of his working career — typically twenty-five to thirty additional years of service — plus the value of his health insurance, retirement contributions, and other employer-paid benefits that his family will now have to replace. The figure that surfaces most often in life-care-economist models for a thirty-seven-year-old public-safety officer is between $1.5 million and $3.5 million in projected lost earnings and benefits, before adjustments for taxes, discounting, and the personal-consumption deduction Tennessee courts apply in wrongful-death cases.
The non-economic damages — loss of consortium for Nicole, loss of parental guidance for the three minor children, the conscious pain and suffering of Deputy Bonham between the time he was shot and the time he was pronounced — are substantial and, in a case where the $750,000 statutory cap can be argued to be waived by the intentional-conduct exception, are not bounded by the cap. Tennessee juries have returned verdicts in negligent-security and premises-liability wrongful-death cases ranging from $2 million to $15 million, with the higher end reserved for cases where the property owner had clear prior notice of risk and failed to act. Cases against motel chains with documented prior-incident histories, inadequate staffing, and deficient camera coverage have produced verdicts in the $5 million to $15 million range, and have also produced significant punitive damages awards where the conduct rose to gross negligence.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.
The realistic case-value range for Deputy Bonham’s family, before discovery confirms the exact facts, is $2 million to $15 million, with the upper portion of that range contingent on what the prior-incident history shows, what the video evidence shows, and how the defense responds in deposition and at mediation. The actual recovery is determined by what the commercial defendants’ insurance towers will support and by what a Weakley County jury, or a federal court venued in Western Tennessee, returns after hearing the full story.
The First 72 Hours — Your Family’s Practical Roadmap
For families who retain us, the first three days after the call are spent doing four things.
First, we send preservation letters to the Days Inn, the hotel management company, the Wyndham franchisor, the gas station owner, the security vendor, and any third-party camera operator. The letter freezes every piece of video, every log, every reservation record, every housekeeping record, every incident report, and every maintenance record, and demands that no auto-deletion occur.
Second, we file Tennessee Public Records Act requests with the Weakley County Sheriff’s Office, the Martin Police Department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and the Weakley County 911 district, demanding dispatch logs, CAD records, 911 audio, incident reports, body-worn camera footage from every officer on scene, and the prior five years of calls for service to the Days Inn address and the adjacent gas station.
Third, we coordinate with the criminal case — through appropriate channels and never in a way that compromises the criminal prosecution — to ensure that physical evidence from the scene, forensic downloads of the suspect’s devices, and witness statements are preserved. A felony homicide prosecution produces a discovery record that becomes the spine of the civil case.
Fourth, we begin building the damages model. That means collecting Deputy Bonham’s employment records, his pay history, his retirement account information, his health insurance enrollment, his service-record commendations, and his family’s household-services profile. The goal is to put a fully-supported lifetime economic loss number in front of a jury, not a round number.
The most important thing for your family to do in the first seventy-two hours is to not give a recorded statement to any insurance carrier, to preserve every piece of paper and every text message that comes from the sheriff’s office or any insurer, and to call us.
Why Our Firm Is Built for This Case
Ralph Manginello is the Managing Partner of Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. He has been licensed in Texas since November 6, 1998, and is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He earned his J.D. from South Texas College of Law Houston in 1998 and his B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Texas at Austin. Before law school he was a working journalist, and that background — combined with more than two and a half decades of courtroom practice — is why his case files read like investigations, not complaints. Ralph is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Houston Bar Association, and the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association. He leads the firm’s commercial-truck, catastrophic-injury, and wrongful-death practice.
Lupe Peña is an Associate Attorney at the firm. He is licensed in Texas since December 6, 2012, and is admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. He earned his J.D. from South Texas College of Law Houston in May 2012 and his B.B.A. in International Business from Saint Mary’s University in San Antonio in 2005. Before joining the firm, Lupe spent years as an insurance-defense attorney at a national defense firm — the same rooms where claims like yours are priced, evaluated, and discounted by software. He knows the adjuster’s playbook from the inside, and he now uses that knowledge on your side of the table. Lupe is fluent in Spanish and conducts full client consultations in Spanish without an interpreter.
We work Tennessee cases. We are not a Tennessee-headquartered firm — we work with Tennessee families through local Tennessee counsel where the rules require it, and through federal court (where the venue rules permit direct admission) where that is the better forum. Our firm does not get paid unless we win. The contingency agreement we offer is 33.33 percent before trial and 40 percent if the case goes to trial, and the only thing you pay out of pocket is the case expenses we front, which we eat if we do not recover. The first consultation is free, the second consultation is free, the third consultation is free. You do not pay us a fee to talk.
What Your Family Should Not Do Right Now
Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance adjuster. Do not sign a release. Do not post details of what happened on social media. Do not agree to a fast settlement. Do not let a well-meaning adjuster walk you through “routine” paperwork that turns out to contain a release. Hablamos Español — si su familia prefiere hablar en español,我们可以为您服务,我们可以为您的家人提供完整的西班牙语咨询服务。
Frequently Asked Questions
Can my family sue the Days Inn for Derrick’s death?
Yes. Under Tennessee law, the surviving spouse and minor children of a person whose death was caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another have the right to bring a wrongful death action under Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-5-106. A motel that failed to take reasonable security measures against foreseeable criminal conduct on its premises — particularly at a location that had been the subject of a shots-fired call within minutes of the shooting — is a candidate defendant. The motel operating entity, the property owner, and the Wyndham franchisor are all candidates depending on the franchise structure and the franchisor’s operational control.
What is the statute of limitations for a wrongful death claim in Tennessee?
The statute of limitations for a Tennessee wrongful death action is one (1) year from the date of death, applied through Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104. Because Deputy Bonham died on January 30, 2026, the family’s claim must be filed no later than January 30, 2027. The deadline is real and unforgiving — but the greater threat to the case is not the deadline, it is the evidence that dies before the deadline arrives.
Does the Firefighter’s Rule bar a wrongful death claim by a line-of-duty officer’s family?
No. The Firefighter’s Rule, as modern Tennessee law recognizes it, bars a first responder from suing the person whose negligence occasioned the emergency — the homeowner whose cigarette started the fire, for example. It does not bar claims against third parties whose independent negligence created or failed to address the danger. A motel and gas station whose security failures are unrelated to the underlying criminal conduct fall outside the rule’s protection. Tennessee’s wrongful-death statute was drafted broadly enough to capture exactly this kind of claim.
Who can bring a wrongful death claim in Tennessee?
Tennessee’s wrongful-death statute permits the action to be brought by the surviving spouse and, if there is no surviving spouse, by the surviving children or next of kin. In Deputy Bonham’s case, his wife Nicole and his three minor children (ages 7, 4, and 3) are the primary beneficiaries. The action is brought in the name of the personal representative of the decedent’s estate on behalf of those beneficiaries.
Will the $750,000 Tennessee non-economic damages cap apply?
The standard Tennessee cap on non-economic damages is $750,000 per plaintiff, but that cap is waived where the defendant intended to cause serious bodily injury, or was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the wrongful act. Where the shooter fired on a responding deputy, the intentional-conduct waiver is the basis for arguing the cap does not apply to the shooter. Against the commercial defendants, the analysis is fact-specific — but Tennessee courts have not allowed a commercial defendant to hide behind the cap where the conduct rose to gross negligence, recklessness, or conscious indifference.
What damages can my family recover?
Tennessee wrongful-death damages include the pecuniary value of the decedent’s life — projected lost earnings and benefits across the remainder of his working life, the value of household services he provided, and the loss of consortium and parental guidance. The estate may also recover for Deputy Bonham’s conscious pain and suffering between the time he was shot and the time he was pronounced dead, and for his funeral expenses. Where the defendant’s conduct warrants, punitive damages are available under Tennessee law.
How fast does the hotel’s CCTV footage disappear?
There is no Tennessee statute that uniformly requires hotels to retain security video. Industry practice is a rolling thirty-day overwrite, often shorter. That means the video of the Days Inn parking lot, the gas station, and the surrounding area from January 29 through February 1, 2026 may be permanently deleted by the end of February. Preservation letters are the only mechanism that stops the clock, and they are time-sensitive. The day your family calls us is the day those letters go out.
Can we sue the gas station where the suspect was seen leaving?
Yes. The gas station adjacent to the motel is a separate commercial premises with its own duty of care to the public. Whether it had cameras, whether those cameras captured the suspect’s movements, whether its employees observed anything, and whether its property layout contributed to the attack vector are all evidentiary questions that your family’s civil case will pursue through discovery.
What if the suspect is found not guilty in the criminal case — does that affect the civil case?
No. The standard of proof in a Tennessee criminal case is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The standard in a Tennessee civil case is a preponderance of the evidence — more likely than not. An acquittal in criminal court does not bar a civil wrongful-death claim; it does not even shift the burden. The two cases run on different tracks with different rules, and the civil case can succeed even where the criminal case does not.
Will our family have to pay anything up front?
No. Attorney911 works on contingency in cases like this. We advance the case expenses, we do the work, and we get paid a percentage of what we recover. If we do not recover, you owe us no fee. The contingency is 33.33 percent before trial and 40 percent if the case goes to trial. The first consultation is free, and there is no charge to talk to us at any stage.
How long will this case take to resolve?
Commercial-defendant wrongful-death cases of this complexity typically resolve in twelve to thirty-six months, depending on the pace of discovery, the defendant’s willingness to mediate, and whether the case proceeds to trial. Cases with strong evidentiary records — preserved video, prior-incident documentation, expert-supported damages models — often resolve earlier because the defendant’s insurance carrier recognizes the exposure. We do not promise a timeline, but we do promise that every day the file is open, we are pushing it forward.
If your family is ready to talk, the call is free, confidential, and available twenty-four hours a day at 1-888-ATTY-911. Hablamos Español. You can also reach our office directly at (713) 528-9070 or by email at ralph@atty911.com. We will send the preservation letters the same day you retain us, and we will begin building the file that gets your family the recovery they deserve.
For more information about how our firm handles wrongful death cases, see our wrongful death practice area and our broader law practice overview. To learn more about the attorneys who will be handling your family’s case, you can read about Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña. If your family has questions about what to do in the first days after a line-of-duty death, our YouTube guide on what to do after a serious injury provides a useful framework for the preservation steps that apply to any catastrophic loss.
Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.