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Jun 22, 2026

Highway 24 Wrong-Way Collision in Orinda: Attorney911 Fights for Families After Fatal Crash Near Wilder Road — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Wrong-Way Driver’s Liability and Potential Dram Shop Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Wrongful Death, We Secure the EDR Black-Box Data and Caltrans Camera Footage Before the Overwrite, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule Means Full Recovery Even If the Deceased Had Partial Fault, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Phone Call We Get From Families Hours After a Wrong-Way Highway 24 Wreck The call usually comes at three in the morning, or right after the chaplain has left the hospital room, or from a kitchen table in Orinda, Lafayette, or Moraga where the family is trying to understand what the California Highway Patrol officer just told them on the porch. Sometimes it comes from a survivor lying in a Contra Costa County hospital bed with a broken body and an unbroken question: how did this happen, and what do I do now? If that is you, or if that is your family tonight, hear us first: we are so sorry for what has happened, and we are ready to do the work that has to be done in the next seventy-two hours to protect the case you may not yet be ready to think about. The death or injury of someone you love in a wrong-way collision on Highway 24 in Orinda is not just a news event. It is the worst day of your life. And it is also — whether you are ready to hear this or not — the first day of a legal process that determines who pays for the rest of your life. We built Attorney911 to stand next to families on that day. We sit on your side of the kitchen table. We work for you, not for an insurance company. And we do not get paid unless we win. This page…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds the Property Owner and Airbnb for Negligent Security in a Gang-Related Bloodbath That Left Five Dead, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage and Social Media Promotions Before the Overwrite, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule and the Two-Year Wrongful-Death Clock, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Halloween Night That Did Not Have To End This Way You are reading this because someone you love walked into a house on a holiday evening and never came home. On Halloween night 2019, five young people were killed and several more wounded in a mass shooting at a rented Airbnb home in Orinda, California — a hilltown of about 19,000 people tucked in the hills east of Oakland, in Contra Costa County. The party had been promoted on social media as a large, open-invite event. The home was a hillside property in an otherwise quiet residential neighborhood. A fight inside the house escalated into gunfire. The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office later described the scene as a “bloodbath.” Three of the victims were pronounced dead at the home. Two more died at hospitals. The shooters, themselves young, were arrested and tried; the criminal side of the case has played out in the courts. But for the families of the five who died, the criminal verdict is not the only verdict that matters. There is a second case, hidden inside the first, that the criminal courts cannot touch — the civil case for the lives that were taken and the families that were broken. That case is the one this page is about. The civil case is a fight over premises liability, negligent security, and wrongful death under California law. It names not the shooters alone, but the companies and people whose choices made the house available, made…

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Jun 22, 2026

Bath Township Mansion Party Shooting Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds the Short-Term Rental Operator & Property Owner Liable for Negligent Security at an Illegal Event Venue, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Wrongful Death Cases, We Preserve the Rental Records & Surveillance Footage Before They Are Deleted, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act & Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury & Wrongful Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Child Went to a Party in Bath Township. By Morning, He Was Gone. We are speaking to you, the family. The parent who got a call in the middle of the night. The sibling who found out from a text thread. The grandparent who drove to the hospital and waited in a waiting room that was not designed to hold this kind of silence. A teenager is dead. Eight others were wounded. The event was a large-scale party held at a mansion in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, in November 2025. The mansion was being operated as a short-term rental — the kind of “Airbnb” or “vacation rental” property that local zoning was written to keep out of residential neighborhoods for exactly the kind of reason that played out on that night. The property owner and the rental operator profited from the booking. The event promoter (or promoters) profited from the party. Security personnel were either absent, understaffed, or grossly inadequate. And an armed individual gained access to a venue where young people had been gathered with no real safety plan, and where the path to the front door was as wide open as the cash register on the booking site. The criminal investigation is one thing. The criminal case may name the shooter, and the State of Ohio will prosecute to the extent the law and the evidence allow. We do not handle criminal cases and we are not making any statement about the criminal proceedings. What we…

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Jun 22, 2026

Travelodge Hotel Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Budget Hotel Chains Accountable for Negligent Key-Card Security That Enabled Unauthorized Room Access & Violent Assault — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trauma, We Preserve the Key-Card Audit Logs and CCTV Footage Before the Overwrite, Severe Psychological Trauma & Sexual Assault Injuries, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Premises Liability — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Woman Checked Into a Travelodge Alone. The Front Desk Handed Her Attacker the Key to Her Room. A solo female guest booked a room at a Travelodge in the United Kingdom for the night. She was alone in her room when a man — not registered to the booking, not present at check-in — walked to the front desk and told staff he was her boyfriend and that he needed a replacement key card. Staff did not verify his identity. They did not call her room. They did not confirm anything. They handed him the key. He walked to her room. He sexually assaulted her. The perpetrator, Kyran Smith, was later sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. That is his sentence. It is not hers. It is not her family’s. It is the criminal court’s reckoning with one man. But the criminal case is not the whole story — and it was never going to be. The survivor’s civil case against the hotel is the other half, and it is the half the hotel did everything it could to keep quiet. Travelodge’s first response to the assault was to offer the survivor a £30 voucher — essentially the cost of the night’s stay refunded. The company later admitted that offer was “inappropriate.” But “inappropriate” is not a legal term, and it is not compensation. It is what a company says when it is trying to make the problem go away with the cheapest possible gesture. What…

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Jun 22, 2026

Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Key Control Lawsuit in Des Moines, Iowa — Attorney911 Holds the Hotel Management Company and Its Corporate Owner for Handing a Stranger a Room Key Without ID Check, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve the Electronic Lock Audit Trail Before It Is Purged, Iowa’s Premises Liability Law and the Foreseeability of Prior Security Breaches, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Checked In. You Locked the Door. Someone Else Had the Key. If you were sexually assaulted in a Des Moines hotel room after a stranger was handed your room key without anyone checking an ID, you already know what no brochure will tell you. The lock on the door meant nothing. The safety bolt meant nothing. The trust you placed in a name on the building meant nothing. What you lived through, and what you have carried since, is the harm the hotel was paid to prevent. We built this page for one person: the survivor or the family member reading at 2 a.m. with shaking hands, looking for someone in Iowa who will tell the truth about what happened, what the law actually does, and what comes next. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle premises-liability and sexual-assault civil claims in Iowa. Below we walk you through the entire case, the law, the defendants, the proof, and the clock — in plain English, with the legal seams dissolved. Nothing here is a sales pitch. It is a map of the road in front of you, written by trial lawyers who have walked it. If you are not ready to read the whole page, the three things to know right now are: (1) Iowa gives you a limited window to act, and the proof in your case is on a clock far shorter than the deadline; (2) the hotel on the sign is rarely the…

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Jun 22, 2026

Bath Township Airbnb Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds the Las Vegas Property Owner and Airbnb for Operating an Illegal Short-Term Rental in a Residential Zone—Elijah Wells, 18, Shot 8 Times at a Party of 300 Minors, Nine Others Wounded, Prior 2017 Bath Township Shooting Proves Foreseeability, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Premises Liability Cases, We Move to Preserve the Booking Logs, Security Footage, and Zoning Violation Records Before They Are Deleted, Ohio’s Wrongful Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury and Wrongful Death Cases—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Father’s Phone Rang at 12:30 a.m. and Never Stopped Ringing It was the first weekend of November. Your son, or your daughter’s friend, or the kid you said goodnight to on Friday, was at a birthday party at a house in Bath Township — one of those Summit County streets where the lots are wide, the trees are old, and the houses have always been homes, not venues. By the time the gunfire stopped, an 18-year-old was dead, shot eight times. Nine others, most of them teenagers, were wounded. Thirteen different 911 calls came in that night. The dispatchers heard the same word over and over: shooting. And a voice on one of those recordings, as the township’s police chief later confirmed, simply said: “blood everywhere.” If you are reading this in the days, weeks, or months after that night, you are not here for a news summary. You are here because the person you raised, or loved, or simply cannot stop thinking about, was taken from you in a way the law is designed to address — and the people who profited from the house where it happened are not facing anything yet. We built this page for you. The Ohio legal system, used the way we use it, gives you tools. The first tool is understanding what just happened, and what the law actually lets you do about it. At Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC, we represent families in catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases across Ohio…

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Jun 22, 2026

Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County Hotel Shootout & Wrongful Death of Officer Pradeep Tamang: Attorney911 Holds the Hotel Ownership and Management for Negligent Security After Directing Officers into a Fatal Ambush, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Police Lives, We Preserve the Hotel CCTV and Body-Worn Camera Footage Before the Overwrite, Georgia’s Wrongful Death Act Allows Recovery of the Full Value of Life for a 25-Year-Old Officer, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When an Officer Goes to Help and Doesn’t Come Home We represent the family of a 25-year-old Gwinnett County police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty, and the family of the second officer who was seriously wounded. We also stand ready to help the wounded officer and his family in the days, months, and years ahead. If you are reading this because a loved one in a badge was lost or hurt at a hotel on February 1, 2026, we want you to know what the law actually allows you to do, what the hotel that hosted the encounter is already doing, and how quickly the proof in this case starts to disappear. On the morning of February 1, 2026, Gwinnett County Police Officer Pradeep Tamang, age 25, and a fellow officer responded to a report that someone had used a fraudulent credit card at a hotel near Stone Mountain, about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta. The front desk clerk directed the two officers to the specific room of the person suspected of the fraud. The suspect invited the officers into the room. The encounter became a shootout. Officer Tamang was fatally wounded. The second officer was seriously injured. The suspect was also shot and remains in custody under medical care, expected to survive. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is leading the criminal investigation into the use of force and the underlying conduct. The criminal case will play out on its own track. The civil…

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Jun 22, 2026

Martin, Weakley County, Tennessee Line-of-Duty Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawyers — Attorney911 Fights for Deputy Derrick Bonham’s Family After Gunfire at Days Inn on University Street, We Hold the Hotel’s Management and Security Providers Accountable for Negligent Security That Enabled the Ambush, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Secure the Hotel and Gas Station Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Loop Erases It, Tennessee’s Wrongful Death Act Allows Recovery for the Pecuniary Loss of a Young Deputy’s Career and the Consortium of Three Young Children, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Family of Deputy Derrick Bonham Deserves the Full Truth About What Happened in Martin Nicole, on the morning of January 30, 2026, your husband Derrick answered a call for help. He did what deputies do. He drove to the Days Inn on University Street in Martin, Tennessee, because someone reported shots fired there. Within minutes of arriving, while he and other officers were working the scene, a man in a vehicle at a nearby gas station opened fire. Derrick was struck. He was taken to Volunteer Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was 36 years old. You have been married for nine years. You have three young children who will grow up without their father. The man accused of killing him is in custody on a charge of first-degree murder. We are sorry. Nothing a law firm writes on a page can change what you are living through right now. But we can tell you the truth about what Tennessee law allows you to do next — because the criminal case against the shooter is only part of what a family in your position can pursue. The criminal system will handle Khristi Dawn Cunningham, 44, of Ohio, on the first-degree murder charge. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been requested to investigate the shooting, as the Martin Police Department announced. That process has its own timeline, its own rules, and its own outcome. It will not pay your mortgage. It will not fund your children’s college. It…

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Jun 22, 2026

West Dallas Short-Term Rental Shooting Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Property Owners & Platforms Liable for Negligent Security After Vilbig Road Party Massacre Left 3 Dead & 1 Seriously Injured — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How STR Claims Are Denied, We Preserve Neighborhood Ring Footage & Social Media Evidence Before It’s Deleted, Texas Wrongful Death Act & Premises Liability for Foreseeable Violence in High-Crime Areas — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened at the Vilbig Road Rental, and What Comes Next If your loved one was killed or hurt in the shooting at the Vilbig Road short-term rental in West Dallas on May 26, 2026, you do not need us to explain how the last week has felt. You have already lived through the police at the door, the hours of silence from the property manager, the news trucks outside the house, the funeral director who wanted decisions before you had them, and the first text from an insurance number you did not ask for. The civil justice system cannot bring your person back. What it can do is hold the right people accountable, force the truth out of the records they would rather you never saw, and put real money in front of the people your family still has to support. We work for that outcome. The page below explains, in plain English, what Texas law actually gives you, who can be held responsible for what happened inside that rental, what evidence disappears if no one moves to save it this week, and what the insurance companies and their lawyers will try in the days and weeks ahead. The arrest of an 18-year-old suspect in early June confirmed what survivors and witnesses already knew: this was not random. Witnesses identified the shooter by name, and the suspect admitted the act, calling one of the victims by name. Dallas Police charged the shooter with capital murder. That criminal case will…

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Jun 22, 2026

D’Vontaye Mitchell’s Fatal Restraint at Milwaukee Hyatt Regency: Attorney911 Holds Hotel Management Firms Accountable for Security Staff’s Excessive Force, Restraint Asphyxia, and Failure to Train on Positional Hazards — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Corporate Claims Teams Minimize Wrongful Death Cases, We Preserve Security Footage and Staff Training Records Before They Are Altered, Wisconsin’s Wrongful Death Act Allows Recovery for Loss of Society and Pecuniary Damages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Your Family Member Died After Hotel Workers Pinned Him to the Ground. Here Is What You Need to Know Right Now. If your loved one was restrained by hotel workers, security guards, bouncers, police, or anyone else and never walked away, you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone just told you what happened, or because the funeral ended and the questions have started. You need straight answers about who pays, how long you have to act, and what evidence is already disappearing. That is what this page exists to give you. On June 30, 2024, D’Vontaye Mitchell died outside the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee after four hotel workers, including security guards, a front desk agent, and a bellman, physically restrained him outside the building. Security footage captured what happened. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide caused by restraint asphyxia, with toxic effects of cocaine and methamphetamine listed as contributing factors. Four workers, Todd Alan Erickson, Devin W. Johnson-Carson, Herbert T. Williamson, and Brandon Ladaniel Turner, were each charged with felony murder. A Milwaukee County Court Commissioner found probable cause on August 25, 2025, and bound all four over for trial. The family later reached a confidential settlement with the hotel. That settlement resolved the civil case against the hotel’s management company. But the criminal proceedings against the individual workers continue, and they raise the same fundamental questions every family in this situation asks: What duty did the hotel owe? Who is legally responsible? What does…

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