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Jun 21, 2026

Bodycam Shows Christopher Bankhead Trying to Exit Before the Fatal Columbus, Lowndes County, Mississippi Crash — Wrongful-Death Attorneys Pursuing the Unlicensed Minor Driver, the Vehicle Owner and the City Under the State Tort-Claims Framework, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Bodycam, Police GPS, Radio Transcripts and EDR Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite Clocks Expire, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Columbus, Mississippi Wrongful Death Lawyer: The Alabama Street Crash, the Passenger Who Tried to Get Out, and the 90-Day Notice That Starts Tonight The phone rings at 2 a.m. in Lowndes County. The voice on the other end says a name you have been saying since childhood, and then says that name is gone. By morning, the body-camera footage is already on the news. By afternoon, someone friendly from an insurance company is leaving a message. By the end of the week, a defense lawyer in another city has already filed an answer in his head — this child was in the car, so the child assumed the risk — and he is wrong. He is wrong because the bodycam footage the Police Chief played at his own press conference shows a young man reaching for the door handle and saying, out loud, the words that tear the assumption-of-risk defense down at the root: I’m getting out. We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we are writing this page for one person: the family of the passenger who died in the crash at the Food Giant on Alabama Street in Columbus, Mississippi. If that is your family, you are in the worst week of your life, and the page in front of you is built to do three things tonight — protect you, prove the case, and put you back in control of a process that is trying to take control from…

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Jun 21, 2026

Serious Child E-Bike Injury in Kirkland, King County, Washington: Attorney911 Holds the At-Fault Passenger-Car Driver and the Insurance Carrier Accountable at the Totem Lake Intersection of NE 124th St & 109th CT NE — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the Vehicle’s EDR Data and the Village at Totem Lake Store Surveillance Before the 7-to-14-Day Overwrite, Washington Vulnerable Road User Protections Apply, the Firm Has Recovered $5M+ for Brain-Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Kirkland E-Bike Accident Lawyer — A Child Was Seriously Injured in Totem Lake, and the Family Has Questions No One Is Answering Your child is at Harborview. You are reading this between the trauma bay and the waiting room, or at 2 a.m. in a chair that doesn’t recline, or sitting at your kitchen table in Totem Lake with a phone full of voicemails from numbers you don’t recognize. Someone from the other driver’s insurance has already called — once, maybe twice — and the voice was warm, professional, and wrong. You did not imagine what you saw at NE 124th Street and 109th Court NE. Your child was on an electric bicycle, and a passenger vehicle hit your child, and the police closed westbound lanes of NE 124th Street to map the scene. Your child was taken to Harborview Medical Center with serious injuries. That is not a sentence you wanted to read about your own kid, and it is the sentence we are going to work with. We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take catastrophic-injury cases in Washington State, including child e-bike collisions in the Eastside corridor. We have written this page for one reason: to arm you before the insurance company arms itself against you. Everything that follows is the answer we would give you across the kitchen table if you called us tonight — the law, the evidence, the deadlines, the things the adjuster will not tell you,…

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Jun 20, 2026

Texas Wrongful Conviction & Civil Rights Attorneys — Article 11.073 Junk Science Law and the §1983 Recovery After Flores v. State, 27+ Years Federal-Court Trial Experience Pursuing Brady, Monell and Qualified-Immunity Challenges Against Officers and Municipalities, Lupe Peña Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Fights the Indemnification Playbook, Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Under the Timothy Cole Act ($80,000/Year), Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If You Got the Call on June 15, 2026, This Page Is for You If your phone rang on June 15, 2026, and the caller was your brother's habeas attorney, and the words were "the Supreme Court denied cert," you already know what this page is about. You are not reading it to learn what happened. You lived it. You are reading because you need to know what still comes next — and you need to know it from a lawyer who will tell you the truth about the road ahead instead of selling you hope. This page is about Charles Flores. It is about the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, about Article 11.073 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, about the 88th Texas Legislature's 2023 ban on law-enforcement hypnosis, and about the United States Supreme Court's decision not to hear his case. But more importantly, this page is about you — about the Texas family watching someone they love sit on death row with a conviction built on evidence that the Texas Legislature itself has now declared unreliable. We are Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña, of Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are not habeas attorneys. We do not file post-conviction writs in criminal court, and we will not pretend otherwise. But we have spent more than two decades standing between Texans and the systems that failed them — and when a wrongful conviction ends, when the writ finally succeeds or the pardon finally comes, the…

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Jun 20, 2026

Frisco Wrongful Death Lawyers: Civil Justice After a Teen’s Murder Conviction, Attorney911 Files Suit in Collin County and Holds Frisco ISD Accountable Under the Texas Tort Claims Act (6-Month Notice Deadline), Traces $633,908 in GiveSendGo Donations and the Angelic Obsessions LLC Activated 24 Days After the Stabbing Under UFTA § 24.005, Punitive Damages Uncapped Under § 41.008(c)(2) for Intentional Felonies — Ralph Manginello (27+ Years Federal-Court Trial Experience) and Lupe Peña (Former Insurance-Defense Attorney), Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Verdict Comes Back Guilty and the Fight Is Still Beginning The conviction felt like the end of something. It was not. If you are the parent of a Texas teenager whose child was taken from you by an intentional act — and the person responsible has been convicted and sentenced — you have probably heard a hundred well-meaning voices tell you that justice was done. Maybe you believe them. Maybe you are too tired to decide what you believe. Either way, what we want you to know, in the clearest possible terms, is this: a criminal conviction is one track of accountability. It is not the only one. The civil justice system in Texas is a separate, parallel process with its own causes of action, its own deadlines, its own remedies, and its own capacity to reach assets the criminal court could not touch. Some of those deadlines — including one that may have already run on your case — cannot be paused while you grieve. This page is written for the family that just watched a murderer convicted and walked out of a Collin County courtroom with a 35-year sentence wondering what comes next. It is also written for any Texas family whose child was killed by an intentional act and who has not yet been told that civil law gives them a second, very different kind of day in court. We are The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — known as Attorney911. Ralph Manginello has spent twenty-seven-plus…

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Jun 20, 2026

Wilmington Hospital Shooting Attorney — ChristianaCare Negligent Security & Wrongful Death Claims Under 10 Del. C. § 3724, Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Experience and Lupe Peña’s Insurance-Defense Insider Knowledge to the June 16, 2026 Active-Shooter Event, We Lock Down the CCTV, Badge Logs and HR Records Before They’re Purged, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Lost Someone, or You Survived Something No One Should Survive in a Hospital. Here Is What Comes Next. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. — at a kitchen table, in a hospital waiting room, in the back of a cab on the way back from the medical examiner's office — we are sorry for what brought you here. The place your loved one went to be healed became the place they were hurt. Or you were the one who lived through it, locked in a room while a SWAT team cleared the building floor by floor, and the people you trusted to keep you safe were the ones who failed to. You do not need a sales pitch right now. You need to know three things, and we will give you all three before we ask anything of you. One. ChristianaCare — the hospital system that operates Wilmington Hospital on the 500 block of West 14th Street — can be held legally responsible for what happened on June 16, 2026, even though it was a stranger (or a former employee) who pulled the trigger. Delaware law says so, and we will show you exactly how. Two. You have a clock. Delaware's wrongful death statute gives you two years from the date of death to file (10 Del. C. § 3724). The survival action runs on the same two years. The injured survivor has the same two years. But the evidence you need to win runs out much…

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Jun 20, 2026

Houston Negligent Security & Mass-Casualty Event Lawyers: What Texas Families Can Actually Recover After a Terror Attack Succeeds, Why Sovereign Immunity Under the FTCA Bars Federal Defendants, How CPRC § 71.002 and the 2-Year Deadline Govern a Texas Wrongful Death Case, and the Realistic Civil-Defendant Pool (Private Venues, Security Contractors, Third-Party Contractors), Attorney911’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Experience, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Free Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Houston Negligent Security & Mass-Casualty Event Lawyers: The Civil Side of Saturday's Federal Arrests Saturday morning, the news broke: federal agents had arrested five people in a multi-state sweep for an alleged plot to attack a high-profile event at the White House using explosive drones and pre-staged sniper teams. If you searched for answers after seeing that headline, you came to the right page. But we owe you honesty before anything else: this is a federal criminal terrorism case, not a personal injury case. Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — is not involved in the prosecution. We are not the victims' lawyers, we are not the defendants' lawyers, and we have not been retained in any matter arising from these arrests. The families who lost loved ones, the victims who were targeted, and the public at large deserve a prosecution that is run by the United States Department of Justice, not by a Texas plaintiffs' firm. So we are not going to tell you we are running that case. What we are going to do is answer the question we are already getting asked: what would happen if the attack had succeeded? If a mass-casualty event at a National Special Security Event venue killed Texans, what civil rights would their families have? Who could they sue? Could they sue the federal government? Could they sue the venue? What is the realistic pool of civil defendants, and what is the realistic recovery? These are questions a Houston personal-injury trial…

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Jun 20, 2026

Laredo Loop 20 Plane Crash Attorney: NetJets Cessna Killed One, Injured Five on a Texas Highway — Attorney911’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Experience Against Berkshire Hathaway, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Wrongful Death Law (§§ 71.001-71.003), Montreal Convention Article 17 Strict Liability, the 30-Day NTSB Party Status Window, FDR and FlightRadar24 Preservation, $50M+ Recovered for Texas Families — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What the Family of the Deceased Is Facing Right Now The call came in the middle of the night, or in the hour after midnight, or in the early morning while a stretch of Loop 20 near Saunders Street was still closed in both directions. Someone — a hospital, a sheriff's deputy, a NetJets representative, a friend who saw it on the news — told you a Cessna Citation Latitude went down on a Texas highway after departing San José del Cabo. One person did not come home. Five are in hospitals. A car on Loop 20 was struck by a piece of falling aircraft. The FBI walked the debris field. The NTSB took over the investigation. And you are reading this page between phone calls, between the questions no one can answer yet, between the news trucks pulling up to the overpass and the family group chat that will not stop buzzing. If that is you — the spouse or parent or child of the person who did not survive, the survivor in a hospital bed being asked to give a recorded statement to someone you just met, the motorist on Loop 20 whose car was hit by a thirty-thousand-pound piece of aircraft while you were driving to work — you are reading the right page. Aviation crashes on Texas highways are not in any manual. They are in our experience, in the federal regulations and the Texas wrongful-death statute and the international treaty that govern the case, and…

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Jun 20, 2026

Laredo Loop 20 NetJets Cessna Citation Latitude Crash Lawyer — Texas Wrongful Death & Aviation Disaster Claims Under FAA Part 91 Subpart K, NTSB Party Process, the 2-Year Deadline Under CPRC § 16.003(b), and Why Berkshire Hathaway’s Aviation Claims Unit Will Be at the Crash Site Within Hours, Attorney911’s Ralph Manginello Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Experience, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How They Code Reserves, We File the § 831.11 Party Request in the First 5 Days and Send Spoliation Letters Before the FDR and CVR Data Are Sealed — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What just happened on Loop 20, and what it means for your family tonight If you are reading this page, someone you love was on a Cessna Citation Latitude that came down on the Bob Bullock Loop in Laredo on the evening of June 16, 2026, and did not land. One person is dead. Five others are in area hospitals. NTSB and FBI investigators are still on the pavement. And within the next 24 to 48 hours — maybe sooner — a claims representative from a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate will call you. They will sound compassionate. They will offer to "help." They will ask you to give a recorded statement. Some of them will arrive with a check and a release. None of what they say will be on your side. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC, a Texas trial firm with offices in Houston, Austin, and Beaumont, and we have spent 27 years standing between families and the claims machines that come for them in the first hours after a tragedy. We did not handle this crash. We have not been retained. But we know exactly what is about to happen to your family if you do not get the right advice in the next five days, and we built this page to give that advice to you for free, right now, before that phone rings. What follows is the most complete public-facing breakdown of the Laredo Loop 20 crash, the Cessna Citation Latitude (tail number…

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Jun 20, 2026

Katy Tesla Autopilot Crash Lawyer — Attorney911 with 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Experience After a Tesla on Autopilot Drove Into a Home in the 21,300 Block of Rose Hollow Lane and Killed a 70-Year-Old Woman, We Sue Both the Driver and Tesla, Preserve the Autopilot Black-Box Data Before It’s Wiped, Texas Wrongful Death Under § 71.002, 2-Year Deadline Under § 16.003, Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Lupe Peña on Staff, $50M+ Recovered for Texas Families Since 1998 — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Call No Family Should Ever Get It was just after 8:30 on a Friday evening. A woman in her mid-70s was inside her own home on the 21,300 block of Rose Hollow Lane in Katy — the same home where she had lived for years, where her family gathered for holidays, where she should have been safest. A Tesla came down the street. The driver told Harris County Precinct 5 investigators he had the car on Autopilot. The vehicle left the roadway, crossed the yard, and drove into the house. The woman was Lifeflighted to Memorial Hermann in Houston. She was pronounced dead. If you are reading this, you are likely one of the people who got the call that night. A daughter. A son. A husband. A grandchild. You may still be at the hospital. You may be standing in the room where the wall is now missing, looking at the car that drove into your mother's life. You may be answering a phone that is already ringing with an adjuster who says he is "just checking in." That adjuster is not your friend. He works for someone who has something to lose. This page is for you. It explains — in plain English, with the actual Texas statutes and the actual evidence that is disappearing right now — what the law gives you, who you can hold accountable, what the deadline is, and what to do before the other side's lawyers start shaping the story. Reading this…

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Jun 20, 2026

Laredo NetJets Plane Crash on Loop 20 — Attorney911 Aviation Wrongful Death and Injury Lawyers: 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Experience, NTSB Party Process, Texas 2-Year Deadline, Montreal Convention, $100M+ NetJets/Berkshire Policy Limits — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Laredo, June 16, 2026: When a Business Jet Came Down on Loop 20 If you are reading this, you are probably not a journalist and not a researcher. You are someone whose life was just touched by what happened just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday night — a member of your family was on the plane, or you were on Loop 20 yourself, or you got a phone call you will never forget. We are sorry. We have sat at enough kitchen tables in the days after a death to know what the next hours will hold: calls you cannot return, paperwork no one warned you about, an insurance adjuster who will sound gentle and is not. This page is for you. What we know is this. A Cessna Citation Latitude, registration N523QS, operated by NetJets Aviation — the world's largest fractional-jet company and a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary — struck Texas State Highway Loop 20, the Bob Bullock Loop that encircles Laredo, and caught fire. One of the six people on board was killed. The other five were taken to area hospitals, where most were later released. A car on the highway was struck; its occupants were taken to a hospital with what the Laredo Police Department described as non-critical injuries. Five police officers were treated for smoke inhalation and cleared by 2:45 a.m. Parts of the aircraft and pools of jet fuel remained on the roadway into Wednesday morning, closing Loop 20 in both directions for hours. The person…

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