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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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Jun 22, 2026

Attempted Hotel Sexual Assault in Gonzales, Texas: Attorney911 Holds Holiday Inn Express & IHG Accountable for Front-Desk Staff Issuing Key Cards to Predators — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles Negligent-Security Cases, We Preserve the Electronic Door-Lock Audit Trail and CCTV Footage Before the Overwrite, Psychological Trauma and the $44M Houston Verdict Signal What These Cases Are Worth, Texas Premises-Liability Law Protects Guests from Foreseeable Criminal Acts — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Phone Call That Starts Everything It is after midnight when the call comes in. Maybe it is later than that — maybe the survivor has been sitting with the phone in her hand for hours, replaying the moment she woke up to a man crouched at the foot of her bed with his pants undone and a condom out. The man said he knew her. The front desk gave him a key. She screamed, he ran, and the police later found him and charged him with attempted sexual assault. She is calling us because the man who did this is the criminal case, but the business that handed him the key is the civil case — and that is the case Attorney911 was built to fight. This page is for her. It is also for any woman — and the men and children who suffer this same betrayal — who checked into a hotel thinking the room was a sanctuary, and woke up in a crime scene the hotel itself made possible. If you or someone you love was sexually assaulted because a hotel in Gonzales County gave a key to the wrong person, this page explains what the law in Texas says you can do, who you can hold responsible, what evidence has already been destroyed, what is still recoverable, and what it is going to take to put your life back together. We do not write for traffic. We write for the one person in Gonzales County…

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Jun 22, 2026

Hotel Sexual Assault & Negligent Security Lawsuit After Unverified Hotel Key Grants Rapist Access to Cheri Marchionda’s Room at Des Moines Embassy Suites — Attorney911 Holds Atrium Hospitality & John Q. Hammons Management Liable for Failing Industry-Standard Identity Checks, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Sexual Assault Cases, We Preserve Front-Desk Keycard Logs & Security Footage Before the Overwrite Loop, PTSD & Long-Term Disability ($5M+ Recovered in Catastrophic Injury Cases), Iowa’s Premises Liability Duty to Protect Guests from Foreseeable Criminal Acts — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Hotel Handed Him the Key You came to Des Moines for work. A city you had traveled to before, on a trip you had made dozens of times. You checked in at the Embassy Suites, used the deadbolt the way you always do, and went to sleep. Then a hand on your leg. Then a voice telling you not to scream. Then hours you survived by going somewhere else inside your mind. If this is where you are, I want you to hear something before anything else: this was not your fault. What happened to you is the predictable consequence of a system that failed. A front desk that handed a room key to a man who had no business being given one. A maintenance worker who disabled the one lock that could have stopped him. A hotel that had been warned, and looked the other way. We are here to make that system answer for what it did. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We represent people who were sexually assaulted in hotels, motels, and other commercial lodging in Iowa and across the country. Ralph Manginello, our managing partner, has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court, fighting corporations that tried to hide behind contracts and policies instead of taking responsibility. Lupe Peña, our associate attorney, spent years inside a national insurance defense firm. He knows exactly how these companies value claims, what software they use to discount your suffering, and which doctors they send…

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Jun 22, 2026

Des Moines Hotel Sexual Assault & Premises Liability Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Embassy Suites Operators & Corporate Owners Accountable After Staff Handed Attacker a Room Key Without Verification—Cheri Marchionda’s PTSD & Lost Executive Career, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage & Key-Card Logs Before the Overwrite, Iowa’s Duty of Care for Guest Safety, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Front Desk Hands a Stranger the Key to Your Room: How Iowa Hotel Negligent Security Law Works The phone rings at 2 a.m. The person on the other end is telling you they were raped inside the very room the hotel rented them. The lock on the door did not hold. The man who climbed into the bed had a key the front desk gave him. The hotel’s own maintenance worker had disabled the safety latch the night before. You are not imagining what went wrong here. You are describing every single failure negligent security law was built to address. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we represent survivors of sexual assault and violent crime in Iowa and across the country. We built this page for the woman who is reading this at 2 a.m., for the family member who flew in after the call from the hospital, and for every survivor who has been told that what happened was “just bad luck” and that the hotel had no duty. That is not the law. The law in Iowa, and the law of premises liability nationwide, has protected people like you for a very long time. We exist to put that law to work in your case. This page walks through, in plain English, what an Iowa hotel negligent security claim looks like after a sexual assault, who can be held responsible, what evidence you must protect in the first 72 hours, how…

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