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Jun 22, 2026

Mass Shooting at Bath Township Mansion Party Leaves 18-Year-Old Elijah Wells Dead & 19-Year-Old Reginald Hart Permanently Injured — Attorney911 Holds Airbnb & Property Owners Liable for Illegal Short-Term Rental Violating Bath Township Zoning Laws, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Pursues Negligent Security & Premises Liability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Fights the Claims Machine That Undervalues Mass-Casualty Shootings, We Preserve Surveillance Footage & Booking Records Before They Vanish, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act & Comparative-Fault Rule Protect Families, 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

The Day That Was Supposed to Be a Birthday A mother is sitting in a house with a bedroom that still holds her son’s things, a calendar that still has his name on it, and a phone she keeps checking because some part of her still believes the screen is going to light up. Her son, Elijah Wells, was eighteen. He went to what was supposed to be a birthday party at a large house on Top-O-The-Hill Drive in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio on the night of November 2, 2025. By the time the sun came up on the third of November, gunfire had torn through that house, nine people had been hit, and Elijah was fighting for his life. He died days later. He was a phenomenal person, and the world is going to take a big loss without him. A young man named Reginald “Reggie” Hart, who was nineteen at the time, was inside that home for only about ten minutes before the shooting started. He dropped to the kitchen floor for cover and was still struck multiple times in the back and feet. More than seven months later, he continues to suffer from serious injuries. He will be dealing with the consequences of that night for the rest of his life. If you are reading this because someone you love is part of this story, we are sorry. We are sorry for what has already happened, and we are sorry for the long road ahead. We…

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Jun 22, 2026

Hotel Sex Trafficking Lawsuit in Anaheim & Escondido: Attorney911 Holds Wyndham, Ramada & Super 8 Accountable for Ignoring Red Flags of Forced Exploitation, Federal TVPRA Claims & California Premises Liability, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Hospitality Industry’s Claims Machine Operates, We Preserve Guest Folios & Staff Training Logs Before They’re Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Trauma — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Were Trafficked at a Ramada in Anaheim or a Super 8 in Escondido, the Hotel That Took the Money Is on the Hook — and You May Still Have Time We want to talk to you directly, not to the news cycle, and not to the corporate defendant. If you are the survivor whose story is now public — or if you are someone who was trafficked at a budget motel in Anaheim or Escondido and have never told anyone — we want you to read this carefully, because the law in California and under federal statute gives you more power than you have been told, and the companies that profited from what happened to you can be made to answer for it. You did not get caught in something complicated. You got caught in something simple: a system built to move money, where men and women and children were rented by the hour, the night, or the week, and the motel kept cashing the credit card swipes. The corporate defendant is not just the property at 921 S. Harbor Blvd in Anaheim or the property in Escondido. It is the brand on the sign — Wyndham, with Ramada and Super 8 underneath it — and the law in 2026 has caught up with what that brand knew. This page is written for one person: an adult survivor, or a parent of a survivor, who needs to know what the law actually does, how much time they have,…

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Jun 22, 2026

Las Vegas Casino Human Trafficking Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Boyd Gaming & Station Casinos for Enabling Years of Forced Commercial Sex Acts in Hotel Rooms — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Hospitality Industry Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Keycard Access Logs and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) Civil Claims, Psychological Trauma and Physical Abuse ($5M+ Recovered in Catastrophic Cases) — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Room You Couldn’t Leave: Holding Las Vegas Casinos Accountable When They Took the Cash and Looked Away If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because you escaped a room in a Las Vegas casino-hotel — or because a person you love is in one right now — the most important thing to hear first is this: you are not imagining what happened, the law gives you a federal case against the property that took the money, and the proof you need is on a clock. The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPRA) and Nevada’s state trafficking law both give survivors a civil claim against hotels and casino-resorts that knowingly benefited from the venture that hurt you. We take these cases. The consultation is free. You pay nothing unless we recover for you. This is the same federal statute that two survivors used to sue Boyd Gaming’s The Cannery and Station Casinos’ Santa Fe Station in Las Vegas, alleging those casino-hotels knowingly benefited from sex trafficking carried out by Nathan Chasing Horse between 2014 and 2022 — the same man a Clark County jury convicted on thirteen counts including sexual assault of minors under sixteen and who was sentenced to life in prison with parole possible after thirty-seven years. The hotels are not being prosecuted for what Chasing Horse did to the survivors. They are being sued for what their own staff saw, what their rooms made possible, and what their cash registers took while it was happening. If…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Party Mass Shooting & Airbnb Premises Liability Lawsuit — Attorney911 Pursues the Short-Term Rental Platform and the Property Owner Behind the Unpermitted 100+ Person ‘Mansion Party’ That Violated the 13-Person Occupancy Cap, Airbnb’s Own Party and Weapons Ban, and the 15 Prior Complaints That Proved the Nuisance House Was a Foreseeable Disaster, Five Wrongful Deaths (Omar Taylor, Oshiana Tompkins, Tiyon Farley, Ramon Hill Jr, Javin County) and Multiple Gunshot Wounds, 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 Move to Preserve the Owner’s Security Camera Footage, the Social Media Promoter Posts, and the Orinda Code Enforcement Records Before They Are Deleted, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule and Wrongful-Death Act Allow Recovery Even When the Shooter Is Unknown, 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 Orinda Airbnb Mass Shooting: Holding Hosts, Platforms, and Short-Term Rental Operators Accountable Under California Law You got the call, or you heard about it on the news, or you were there. The details of how the horror landed on your family do not really matter anymore — what matters is that someone you love is gone, and every night since then you have been carrying a weight no one should have to carry. Maybe you are reading this at 2 a.m., because that is when the grief is loudest, and you need to know if someone has to answer for this. The short answer is yes. In California, the people who put that house on the short-term rental market, the platform that profited from it, the woman who lied about who was coming, and the people who promoted the “mansion party” that drew more than 100 people into a home licensed for 13 all share legal responsibility for what happened inside that house that night. We cannot bring back what you lost. We can make the people and companies whose choices made the loss possible stand in a courtroom and answer for it, in dollars that reflect the magnitude of what they took. This page is built to explain exactly how, under exactly which California laws, against exactly which defendants, and on exactly which timeline. What Happened in Orinda on Halloween Night A short-term rental home in a quiet, affluent neighborhood east of the Berkeley Hills — a small…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Shooting Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms Accountable for Negligent Security After Five Lives Lost in Mass Shooting at Unauthorized Party, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Targets Airbnb’s Failure to Enforce Its Own Safety Rules, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Wrongful Death Cases, We Preserve Social Media Promotions and Surveillance Footage Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule Allow Recovery Even When the Shooter Remains Unknown, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Are the Call Families Make When a Short-Term Rental Turns Into a Mass-Casualty Scene The phone call comes in the middle of the night, or in the days that follow. Someone’s child did not come home from a Halloween party. Someone’s brother is in a hospital bed, shot multiple times, and the doctor is saying words like “collateral damage” and “long road.” Someone’s parent, who was supposed to be the responsible one that night, cannot stop replaying the moment they said yes to the trip to Orinda. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We built this firm on cases exactly like the one you’re living through right now: catastrophic injury, preventable death, a corporate defendant trying to point at everyone but themselves, and a grieving family that needs someone to walk into the room and take the weight. Ralph Manginello has spent more than 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, fighting exactly these battles for families across Texas and California. Before law school he was a journalist, so he knows how to dig out the story a corporation would rather bury. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, the same rooms where the playbook you are about to read was developed, and now uses that insider knowledge to dismantle it for injured clients. He conducts full client consultations in Spanish. We don’t get paid unless we win, and we are available 24/7 because grief doesn’t keep business hours. This page is the work…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms and Property Owners Accountable for Unauthorized Party Violence, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve Social Media Posts, Booking Records and Neighbor Testimony Before They Disappear, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule and Wrongful-Death Act, 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

The Orinda Halloween: When the Door Opens and the Bullets Start If you are reading this at 2 a.m. from a hospital waiting room in Contra Costa County, from your child’s bedroom in Vallejo, or from a kitchen table where the family has just been told to come to Walnut Creek, this page was built for you. The phone call came the way these calls always come. Someone who should have been home at midnight on Halloween was not home. There was shooting at a party. Someone is gone. Someone is in surgery. Someone does not yet know what happened, only that the door is closing around their family’s world. On the night of October 31, 2019, on the 100 block of Lucille Way in Orinda, a party advertised openly on Instagram as an “AirBNB mansion party” turned into the deadliest residential shooting in recent California memory. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office has reported four people killed and multiple others wounded. One 24-year-old from Vallejo was shot three to four times and is under sedation in the hospital. Some of the wounded drove themselves to the hospital. Neighbors described watching 30 to 50 people fleeing down the hillside as five gunshots rang out, then more. The narrow, winding street in this multimillion-dollar neighborhood made evacuation slow and dangerous. The shooter has not been caught. The renter of the house deceived the homeowner, claiming she needed to escape the Kincade Fire smoke because of asthma. The actual party was promoted…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Airbnb Accountable for Failing to Enforce No-Party Policies in High-Risk Short-Term Rentals, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Against Corporate Platforms That Profit From Unsafe Venues, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Black and Brown Lives Lost, We Preserve Social Media Ads, Booking Records, and Security Footage Before They Vanish, California’s Wrongful Death Act Lets Families Recover for the Five Young Victims — Omar Taylor, Oshiana Thompkins, Tiyon Farley, Javlin County, and Raymon Hill Jr. — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Halloween Night That Should Never Have Happened You are reading this because someone you love went to a house in Orinda, California, on the night of October 31, 2019, and did not come home. The five young people killed that night had plans the next morning. They had families waiting for them. They had decades of life ahead of them — schooling, careers, children of their own, ordinary Tuesday nights. That is what was taken. We represent the families of people killed by someone else’s choices. We know what the weeks after a loss like this feel like: the phone calls that never stop, the funeral costs that arrive before the insurance paperwork, the grief that makes every decision harder, and the slow realization that the people responsible for the conditions that made this possible are not going to volunteer to help. We also know that this case is about more than one terrible night — it is about a property, a host, an online platform, and a series of decisions that put five young lives in the same room with people who had every intention of doing them harm. The rest of this page walks you through the legal landscape, the evidence that is disappearing right now, the people who can be held responsible, and what your family can actually do about it. We do not need you to decide anything today. We need you to have real information. What Happened in Orinda On the night of October…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Airbnb and the Short-Term Rental Industry Accountable for Negligent Security, Unscreened Party Bookings, and the Foreseeable Violence That Killed Raymon Hill Jr. and Four Others, 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 Social Media Promotions, Police Body-Cam Footage, and Home Security Recordings Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Know Exactly Who You Are Right Now You are reading this because someone you love went to a party in Orinda on Halloween night, 2019, and did not come home. You are the parent of a nineteen-year-old who was just starting life, or the family of a twenty-three-year-old who left behind a three-year-old daughter who will grow up asking what her daddy was like. Five people died that night at a house advertised on social media as a “mansion party” — a house rented through Airbnb, in a quiet residential neighborhood in the hills above Camino Pablo and Brookwood Road, on a winding, narrow street with limited patrol coverage. We are not going to dress this up. We are going to tell you what the law in California actually says you can do about it, who you can hold responsible, what evidence exists and how fast it is being lost, how the insurance industry will try to take your case from you, and what the case is worth in real numbers. We are Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña. We run a trial firm out of Houston that takes cases across the country, and we have spent decades standing in courtrooms against the same kinds of defendants you are about to face — a tech platform that wants to call itself neutral, a homeowner who wants to disappear, a city that wants to claim immunity, and a parade of insurance adjusters who will call you in the next seventy-two hours…

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Jun 22, 2026

Elijah Wells Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Airbnb and the Bath Township Mansion Owner Liable for the Illegal Party Shooting That Left 9 Injured and an 18-Year-Old Son Dead from 8 Gunshot Wounds — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Cases, We Preserve the Booking Records and Social Media Evidence Before They Vanish, Ohio’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Zoning Violations That Made This Tragedy Foreseeable — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Are Talking to a Mother Who Has Now Buried Three of Her Children If you are reading this page, you have lost someone to gun violence at a house that was never supposed to be hosting that party. You may have watched your son bleed out in an unfamiliar neighborhood, or held his hand while a hospital team tried to save him, or sat across from a detective who told you the shooters are still unidentified. You are now being asked by strangers — police, prosecutors, reporters, neighbors, well-meaning friends — to make decisions at a time when you can barely get out of bed. We are not going to tell you that money fixes anything. Nothing fixes the empty chair. We will tell you what Ohio law actually does for a family in your position, what is at stake, who can be held responsible, what evidence is on a clock that may already be running out, and how we work. We have worked catastrophic-death cases across Ohio for more than two decades, and we will sit with you in your kitchen or your living room, on your schedule, in English or in Spanish, and walk through every option before anyone signs anything. You do not need to decide tonight. But you do need to know that the window to preserve the proof is measured in days and weeks, not months, and that the people who owe you an answer are already moving to protect themselves. The call that…

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Jun 22, 2026

MGM Resorts Sues 1,000+ Las Vegas Shooting Victims to Avoid Liability — Attorney911 Fights for the 58 Killed & Hundreds Injured at Route 91 Harvest Festival, Holding the Hotel Giant & Its DHS-Certified Security Contractor Under Nevada Premises Liability Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Mass-Casualty Cases, We Preserve Hotel Surveillance & Staffing Logs Before They Vanish, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death & Catastrophic-Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If MGM Just Sued You For Surviving, Read This First If a lawyer’s letter arrived with MGM Resorts International’s letterhead saying the company that owned the hotel where the bullets came from is suing you for what Stephen Paddock did, that is not a mistake and it is not a technicality. It is a federal lawsuit MGM filed in Nevada state court and in California federal court, naming more than a thousand people who were shot, shot at, lost family members, or just stood in the concert ground that night, asking a judge to declare MGM is not liable. MGM is not the victim here. The 58 people killed and the hundreds wounded are the victims. And the federal lawsuit MGM filed is a tactical move built on one federal statute — the SAFETY Act — that MGM hopes you and your lawyer do not understand well enough to defeat. We do. This page is built to walk you through exactly what MGM is doing, what the law actually says, what your rights are, and what the next 72 hours of your case will look like with our firm at your side. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. with that letter on the kitchen table, you are in the right place. The call is free. The consultation is confidential. 1-888-ATTY-911. The Federal Question MGM Is Hiding Behind MGM’s whole defense rests on a single federal statute, the SAFETY Act of 2002, 6 U.S.C. §§ 441–444. The Act was…

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