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Jul 20, 2026

Gainesville Park Shooting: One Dead, One Injured, Attorney911 Pursues Negligent Security and Premises Liability Claims Against the Park Owners and Operators Who Failed to Protect Visitors From Foreseeable Criminal Violence, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the Surveillance Footage, Prior Crime Reports and Patrol Logs Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, Georgia’s Ante Litem Notice Deadline Can Forever Bar Your Claim Against the City or County, Georgia Wrongful Death Law Seeks the Full Value of the Life Lost, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Gainesville Park Shooting: Your Family’s Legal Rights After Negligent Security Failed You are reading this at a hour when nobody should have to read anything. Someone you love was taken from you at a park in downtown Gainesville — a place that should have been safe, should have been watched, should have been something other than what it became. One person is dead. One person is hurt. And the question you are typing into your phone at 2 a.m. is not really a legal question. It is: does anyone have to answer for this? The answer is yes. Not just the person who pulled the trigger — though that prosecution matters and will run its own course. The answer extends to whoever owned, operated, or controlled that park and allowed it to become a place where a shooting was foreseeable, where the lighting was insufficient, where the cameras were broken or absent, where the security patrols had gaps, and where nobody warned the people who walked in that the danger was already known. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death and premises liability cases across the country, working with local counsel where the rules require it. This page is not a pitch. It is everything we know about how a case like yours is built, what the law in Georgia actually says, what evidence is disappearing while you read this, and what deadlines are already running — including one…

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Jul 20, 2026

Fatal Shooting of Matthew Cody Kintzel on a Rural Andrews County, Texas Property Where the Texas Rangers Lead the Investigation, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Wrongful-Death and Negligent-Security Cases From Firearm Violence on Isolated Properties, We Pursue the At-Fault Shooter, the Negligent Property Owner and the Firearm Owner Who Enabled the Harm, We Move to Preserve the Autopsy Findings, Crime-Scene Ballistics and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault 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

Andrews County Fatal Shooting: Your Legal Rights After the Death of Matthew Cody Kintzel If you are reading this page at two in the morning, someone you love is gone and the silence around how they died is its own kind of wound. The Andrews County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the 2000 block of Southeast 2700 on the evening of June 12, 2026, and found Matthew Cody Kintzel deceased inside a building on the property. The Texas Rangers took over the investigation. An autopsy was performed three days later at the Texas Panhandle Forensic Center in Lubbock — 120 miles of dark highway northeast of Andrews — and no findings have been released. No suspect has been named. No manner of death has been disclosed. The investigation, in the words of the Texas Department of Public Safety, remains ongoing. We cannot give you back what was taken. What this page can do is tell you the truth about your legal rights while that investigation runs — about the evidence that is already beginning to disappear on its own clock, about the civil remedies that exist in parallel with the criminal case, and about the decisions that must be made in days, not months, even though everything in you wants to wait for more answers. This is the work of Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes wrongful death cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including…

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Jul 20, 2026

157 MPH Rear-End Collision on I-20 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas — Shaundi Kyree Smallwood, 19, Killed Riding Home from Six Flags When a Speeding Driver Struck His SUV at More Than Double the Interstate Limit, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Texas Gross-Negligence Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner and the Insurer Behind the Policy, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Crash Claims, We Move to Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Police Crash Report Before the Evidence Is Lost, Texas Wrongful-Death Act, Survival Action, Exemplary Damages Where 157 MPH Constitutes Conscious Indifference to Human Life, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fort Worth 157 MPH Wrongful Death on I-20: When Extreme Speed Becomes Gross Negligence Under Texas Law If you are reading this because someone you love was taken by a driver who treated a public interstate like a race track, we need to tell you three things before anything else. First: what happened was not an accident in any honest sense of that word — it was a choice, and the law knows the difference. Second: Texas gives families a path to hold that choice accountable, and in cases involving speeds this extreme, the law opens doors that ordinary crashes never reach. Third — and we will not pretend otherwise — there is a clock, and if the crash happened more than two years ago, that clock may have already run out. We will explain every one of these truths in full, because you deserve the real map, not a sales pitch. A nineteen-year-old was killed on Interstate 20 in Fort Worth when a driver traveling 157 miles per hour struck the SUV he was riding in from behind. He was coming home from a day at Six Flags with friends. The posted speed on that stretch of I-20 is typically 60 to 70 miles per hour. The at-fault driver was moving at more than double that — a speed that, as we will show you, does not merely increase the danger of a crash but transforms the outcome from injury to death with the certainty of physics. TxDOT reports…

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Jul 20, 2026

Body Found in an Odessa Donation Box Under Police Investigation — Donation-Bin Death & Wrongful-Death Attorneys Serving the Midland–Odessa Region: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Avvo Excellent 8.2 Rating, We Pursue the Property Owners, Bin Operators and Manufacturers Behind the Hinged Intake Flap That Turns a Clothing Bin Into a One-Way Trap, We Preserve the Bin Itself, the Parking-Lot CCTV Before It Overwrites Within 30 Days, and the Manufacturer’s Design and Prior-Complaint Records, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Action With the Comparative-Fault 51 Percent Bar, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Donation Box Death: Who Is Liable When a Donation Bin Turns Deadly If you are reading this because someone you love was found in a donation box in Odessa, we want you to hear one thing before anything else: what happened to your family is not something you should have to figure out alone, and nothing you decide today needs to be decided in a hurry. The police are investigating, and their findings will shape everything that follows. Right now, your job is to grieve. Our job, when you are ready, is to find out whether a dangerous bin design, a negligent property owner, or a manufacturer who knew these bins kill and did nothing is responsible for what happened — and to hold them accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We take wrongful-death cases across Texas, including the Midland–Odessa metropolitan area and Ector County. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years licensed in Texas courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm before sitting on your side of the table — he knows how claims are valued, how adjusters think, and how delay tactics work because he used to deploy them. We work in English and Spanish. We do not charge a fee unless we win your case. What follows is everything we know about donation-bin deaths, the legal rights of families, and the evidence that is already beginning to disappear — written for the one person who needs it…

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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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