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Jul 18, 2026

Seven Dead in a Preventable Mass Shooting in Odessa, Texas: A Prohibited Buyer Exploited the Federal Background-Check Loophole to Obtain an Assault-Style Rifle From an Unlicensed Seller on an Online Firearms Classifieds Platform — Attorney911 Pursues Armslist, LLC and the Private Seller Under Negligent-Entrustment Doctrine and the PLCAA Exception, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice in a West Texas Venue Where Oilfield-Safety Culture Primes Jurors for Corporate Accountability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Platform Ad Records, ATF Trace Data and Seller Communications Before Text Records and Platform Data Are Overwritten Within 90 to 180 Days, the Gun Control Act’s Private-Sale Gap and the Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Statute With the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa, Texas: When the Background Check Loophole Arms a Prohibited Buyer You are reading this at an hour when most people are asleep. Someone you love was taken from you on that West Texas corridor between Odessa and Midland — or you are the one who survived, and the sound of a rifle has not left your ears. The shooter is dead. The police came. The news trucks left. And now you are sitting with the question nobody in authority has answered: who put that weapon in his hands, and can the law reach them? The answer is yes. The shooter is not the only defendant. A person who sold an assault-style rifle to a stranger through an online classifieds site — without a single question, without a background check, without any vetting whatsoever — is not an innocent bystander. And the platform that connected them, a website built specifically to facilitate firearms transfers between anonymous strangers, may bear its own responsibility. The law of negligent entrustment, the exceptions built into the federal gun industry shield, and the developing doctrine of online platform liability all point at the same truth: when someone hands a dangerous instrumentality to a person the law has already flagged as prohibited, the people who enabled that transfer can be held accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a Houston-based trial firm that takes wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in Texas courtrooms,…

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Jul 18, 2026

Seven Killed and 22 Injured in the Odessa-Midland Mass Shooting Rampage That Spanned 10 Miles of I-20 From a Traffic Stop to a Hijacked Mail Truck, Among the Dead 15-Year-Old Leilah Hernandez and Trucking Company Owner Rodolfo Arco Who Had Fled Las Vegas After the 2017 Route 91 Mass Shooting Seeking Safety in West Texas, Attorney911 Pursues the Firearm Seller or Transferor Behind a Negligent Sale, the Employer Who Ignored Warning Signs Before the Termination, and the Commercial Property Owners Along the Shooting Corridor for Negligent Security, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Trace the Firearm’s ATF Purchase Chain and Pull the Employment Records, 911 Dispatch Logs and Surveillance Footage Before They Are Destroyed, Federal Background-Check Requirements Under 18 U.S.C. § 922 and Texas Wrongful-Death and Premises-Liability Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa and Midland, Texas Mass Shooting: Legal Rights of Victims and Families If you are reading this page, someone you love was taken from you on August 31, 2019 — or they were among the twenty-two who survived with injuries they will carry for the rest of their lives. You may be the parent of a fifteen-year-old girl who had just celebrated her quinceañera three months before a bullet found her at a truck dealership. You may be the wife of a man who worked six days a week to support his family, shot through the window of his car while sitting at a traffic light with his wife and two children beside him. You may be the family of a man who moved from Las Vegas to Odessa because he believed it would be safer — only to be killed in the second mass shooting he was caught in. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are writing to you, not at you. Everything on this page is here to protect you, to answer the questions you have been carrying since that Saturday afternoon in the Permian Basin, and to tell you the truth about what is still possible even now — years after the gunfire stopped outside a movie theater in Odessa. Here is the first truth: the gunman is dead. He was killed by police after they rammed the mail truck he had hijacked. The criminal case ended the moment he fell. But the…

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Jul 18, 2026

DUI Wrongful Death After Intoxication Manslaughter Rollover Kills Marble Falls Woman Near Midland: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Highway Fatalities — Where Flat High-Speed Straightaways and Impaired Reaction Times Turn a Loss of Lane Control Into a Fatal Rollover, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Bars That Over-Served Under Texas Dram Shop Law and Preserve the BAC Toxicology and EDR Black-Box Data Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies DUI Death Claims, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases Under the Texas Wrongful Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Wrongful-Death Filing Deadline Is Critical — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Intoxication Manslaughter: Your Rights After a Fatal DUI Rollover The call came at an hour nobody is ever ready for. Someone you love was on a highway around Midland — Loop 250, SH 158, the Andrews Highway — and a person who had no business behind the wheel took their life in a rollover crash that never had to happen. The police have charged the driver with intoxication manslaughter. That word — manslaughter — tells you the criminal justice system is moving. What it does not tell you is whether anyone is moving for your family. That is the gap this page exists to fill. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death claims and drunk driving crash cases across Texas, and we are writing this page for the person reading at 2 a.m. with a folder of funeral bills and a crime-report number, trying to understand whether the criminal charge means anything for their family’s future. It does. But not the way most people think. The criminal case and your civil case are two entirely separate fights — and the clock on your rights is already running. What Intoxication Manslaughter Means — and What It Does Not Intoxication manslaughter is a second-degree felony under Texas law. It means the state has accused a driver of operating a vehicle while legally intoxicated — a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 or higher, or the loss of normal mental or physical faculties due to alcohol or drugs…

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Jul 18, 2026

Nine Killed in Fiery Head-On Crash When a 13-Year-Old Driving a 2007 Dodge 2500 With a Blown Spare Tire Veered Into a University of the Southwest Golf Team Van on FM 1788 Near Andrews, TX — Attorney911 Pursues Stellantis and the Negligent Entrustors Behind This Fatal Collision, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Failed Tire and Black-Box Data Before They Degrade, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Negligent Entrustment and Products-Liability Claims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews, TX: When a Child Behind the Wheel and a Failed Spare Tire Take Nine Lives You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a golf tournament. A van carrying a coach and eight young athletes back to Hobbs, New Mexico, met a pickup truck on FM 1788 near Andrews, Texas, and nine people are gone. The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed two facts that make this crash different from any other you have read about: the pickup was driven by a 13-year-old — a child who, under Texas law, cannot hold any license at all — and the truck’s left front tire, which was a spare, blew out before impact. Both vehicles caught fire. Everyone in that van, and the child driving the truck, died. We are not going to pretend we can give you back what was taken. What we can do is tell you, plainly and completely, what the law allows families to do when nine people are killed because a child was put behind the wheel of a 3/4-ton pickup on a rural West Texas highway with a spare tire on the front axle. We can tell you who can be held accountable — and it is not just the child. We can tell you what evidence is burning right now, what the insurance companies are already doing, and what the first 72 hours demand of every family that lost someone on that road. This is what we do. We…

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Jul 18, 2026

Custodial Death at Ector County Jail: Douglas Walter Hassell, 55, Found Dead in His Cell October 21, 2022, While the Sheriff Sought Overtime to Cover Understaffed Floors — Attorney911 Holds Counties, Sheriff’s Offices and Jail Medical Contractors Accountable for Missed Cell Checks and Untreated Medical Needs Under Section 1983 Deliberate-Indifference Law, We Preserve the CCTV Footage, Cell-Check Logs and Intake Screening Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them and the Texas Tort Claims Act Notice Deadline Expires, Texas Rangers Investigating Under the State’s Custodial-Death Protocol and Texas Commission on Jail Standards Observation Rules, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When Your Family Member Dies in the Ector County Jail, the Answers Are Not Going to Come to You You received a phone call that no family should ever get. A 55-year-old man was found dead in his cell at the Ector County Law Enforcement Center in Odessa, Texas, on a Friday afternoon in October 2022. Maybe you were told he was discovered at 5:40 p.m. Maybe you were not told anything else — not what happened in the hours before, not whether anyone checked on him, not whether he asked for help that never came. Maybe the next of kin could not even be located at first, and days passed before anyone in your family even knew he was gone. We are going to tell you what we tell every family that calls us in this moment: the jail is not going to explain itself. The Sheriff’s Office will release a brief statement. The Texas Rangers will open an investigation that may take six months or more. And the evidence — the video, the cell-check logs, the intake medical screening — is already on a clock, erasing itself in some cases within weeks. The answers you are owed are not going to arrive at your door. They have to be demanded, in writing, by someone who knows exactly which records to demand and how fast they legally disappear. That is what we do. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death cases in Texas, including…

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Jul 18, 2026

Kenosha Highway 158 Fatal Hit-and-Run: 36-Year-Old Pedestrian Dead on the Shoulder at 2 a.m. as the White Cadillac SRX That Struck Him Fled Into Rain-Soaked Darkness — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Wisconsin Pedestrian Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the Unidentified Driver, the Registered Owner and the UM Carrier Whose Benefits Wisconsin Law Requires When the At-Fault Driver Disappears, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Deploys Wisconsin’s 51% Comparative-Fault Bar Against Pedestrians on Highway Shoulders at Night, We Canvas Corridor Surveillance Before the Overwrite Erases the Plate and Trace the Recovered Chrome Hood Piece to the Striking Vehicle, We Examine Whether the Corridor’s Decades-Long Absence of Pedestrian Infrastructure Created a Foreseeable Hazard, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Kenosha Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Death on Highway 158: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Driver Fled Someone killed a 36-year-old man on State Highway 158 in Kenosha in the early hours of June 25, 2023, and drove away without stopping. A Kenosha County deputy found him lying unresponsive on the shoulder, tried to save his life, and could not. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The vehicle that struck him left behind a chrome hood piece and other car parts — evidence that points to a white 2010–2016 Cadillac SRX with front-end damage — but as of the last public reporting, the driver had not been identified. If your family is living inside this — or inside a tragedy shaped like it — you are reading this at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a folder of papers you cannot bring yourself to open, a phone full of messages from people who mean well and do not understand, and a question that will not leave you alone: what do we do when the person who did this is still out there? We are going to answer that question. Every part of it. The law that protects your family. The evidence that is disappearing while you read. The insurance company’s playbook and how to stop it. The money that exists even if the driver is never caught. And the clock that is already running — the one the other side is hoping you do not hear ticking. This page…

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Jul 18, 2026

Two Odessa Residents Dead After Ector County, Texas Crash & the Wrongful Death Claims Their Families Can File — Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the DPS CR-3 Crash Report, the EDR Black-Box Data and the Scene Evidence Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped and Dashcam Footage Overwrites, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and Any Commercial Carrier Behind the Wheel on Permian Basin Roads Where Oilfield Truck Traffic on US 385 and SH 302 Creates Deadly High-Speed Conflicts, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Claims for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents Under the State’s Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Two Odessa Residents Dead After Ector County Crash — What Surviving Families Need to Know Two people from your community are gone. Not statistics on a highway-safety dashboard — a spouse, a parent, a child, a friend someone is never going to see walk through the door again. The crash happened on roads you know: the same stretches of US 385, State Highway 302, or Interstate 20 that you drive to work, to the store, to visit family in Odessa or across the Permian Basin. And now someone you love is never coming home from one of them. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death claims across Texas, and we are writing this page because the families of the two Odessa residents killed in this crash deserve to know, in plain language, what the law actually gives them, what the insurance company is already doing, and what is quietly disappearing while they grieve. Here is the first thing you need to hear: the law in Texas gives you a path to accountability and financial security. But two clocks started the moment that crash happened. One you can see — the two-year deadline to file a claim. One you cannot — the evidence that is already degrading, being overwritten, or legally destroyed. Everything we do in the first days and weeks after a fatal crash is about the second clock. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. on your phone, the most important thing…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Head-On Crash in Andrews County & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, Where the Two-Lane Highways Anchoring Midland to Andrews County Carry 70 MPH Traffic With No Median Barriers and Heavy Oilfield Truck Loads That Turn Every Center-Line Crossing Into a Catastrophic Impact, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Commercial Carriers Behind the Water Haulers and Sand Trucks Running These Corridors, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Rural Fatal-Crash Claims, We Move to Secure the DPS Crash Report, Black-Box Data Before the Ignition-Cycle Overwrite, Cell-Phone Records Before the Automatic Purge and Dashcam Footage Before the 72-Hour Loop, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for Spouses, Children and Parents With No General Damages Cap in Motor-Vehicle Wrongful-Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews County Fatal Head-On Crash: Your Family’s Rights After a Permian Basin Highway Death You are reading this because someone you love is not coming home. A head-on collision on a highway in Andrews County took their life, and now you are sitting with a grief that has no shape and a list of questions that has no end. The calls have already started. Someone from an insurance company sounds sympathetic on the phone and wants to “just get your statement.” The wrecked vehicle sits in a tow yard, accruing fees. The Texas Department of Public Safety is preparing a crash report that will take weeks. And every single day that passes, evidence that could prove what really happened is fading, being overwritten, or being legally destroyed. We want you to know three things right now, before anything else. First, you do not have to figure this out tonight. Grief comes first. Second, the insurance adjuster who calls you is not your friend, and the kindest thing you can do for your family right now is to not give that person a recorded statement. Third, the evidence from a head-on crash on a Permian Basin highway degrades fast — vehicles get salvaged, road evidence washes away, and the truck’s electronic logs can be legally erased in months. The day you call a lawyer is the day the clock starts working for your family instead of against them. This page is the work of our trial team at Attorney911. Ralph Manginello…

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Jul 18, 2026

Hit-and-Run Semi-Truck on Eastbound I-20 at East Loop 338 in Odessa: Attorney911 Pursues the Unidentified Carrier Behind the 80,000-Pound Rig That Fled a Permian Basin Freight Corridor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Move to Preserve TxDOT Traffic-Camera Footage Before the 72-Hour Overwrite and Pull ELD, GPS and Telematics Records to Identify the Truck, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Hit-and-Run Cases, Texas Stop-and-Render-Aid Violations as Negligence Per Se, UM/UIM Phantom-Vehicle Recovery When the Carrier Cannot Be Found, Gross Negligence for Fleeing an Interstate Crash, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Hit-and-Run Semi-Truck on I-20 at East Loop 338: What to Do When the Truck That Hit You Disappeared You were driving on I-20 through Odessa, and a semi-truck hit you — and then it was gone. The Odessa Police Department is searching for it. You are sitting in a hospital room, or standing on the shoulder of an interstate staring at a wrecked vehicle, or lying awake at 2 a.m. wondering what happens now that the truck that caused this has vanished into the Permian Basin freight traffic. This is the moment everything gets harder — and the moment it gets most important to understand what the law can do for you, even when the at-fault driver has not been found. We are Attorney911, and we handle commercial truck accident cases across Texas. This page is not a news summary. It is the full legal and practical roadmap for someone in your position: hit by a semi-truck on I-20 in Odessa, the truck fled the scene, and the police are still looking. What you need to know right now, before anything else: the truck’s disappearance does not end your case. Texas law provides multiple paths to recovery when a commercial vehicle leaves the scene. But every one of those paths has a clock on it — and the clocks are measured in hours and days, not months. The evidence that could identify that truck is disappearing right now, overwriting itself on cameras and being cleared from the highway by…

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Jul 18, 2026

Hit-and-Run Arrest at I-20 & East Loop 338 in Odessa, Ector County, TX — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Hit-and-Run Cases Where Fleeing the Scene Leaves Victims Without Medical Aid on a 75-MPH Oilfield Corridor, We Preserve the Interchange Surveillance Footage Before the 30-Day Overwrite and Pull the Crash Report, Arrest Affidavit and Black-Box Data, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Hit-and-Run Cases, Texas Stop-and-Render-Aid Law and Punitive Damages for Conscious Indifference, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Hit-and-Run at I-20 and Loop 338: What the Arrest Means and What You Need to Do Right Now You are reading this because someone you love was struck on the I-20 corridor near East Loop 338 in Odessa, and the driver who did it fled the scene. The news says a man was arrested. Maybe you saw the arrest on the local broadcast. Maybe you were the one lying on the pavement when the headlights disappeared into the dark. Either way, you are sitting with a phone full of medical bills, a body that hurts in ways you cannot fully explain yet, and a question that nobody has answered honestly: what does the arrest actually mean for you? Here is the first thing you need to hear, and it is good news. The arrest transforms your case. When a hit-and-run driver is never caught, the victim is often limited to their own uninsured-motorist coverage and whatever the criminal investigation never uncovers. An identified, arrested defendant means a direct civil claim against a real person with a real insurance policy, a real vehicle, and a real name on the lawsuit. That is a fundamentally different case — and a fundamentally stronger one. But here is the second thing, and it is urgent. The arrest gives you a defendant. It does not preserve your evidence. Right now, at the I-20 and Loop 338 interchange, the surveillance cameras at the fuel stations and truck-related businesses that line that junction are recording over…

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