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Jul 21, 2026

NAU Fraternity Hazing Death of Colin Daniel Martinez in Flagstaff, Arizona: Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organization and Its Local Chapter for the Forced Vodka Ritual That Killed an 18-Year-Old Pledge at 0.425% BAC While Fraternity Members Searched Alcohol-Poisoning Symptoms Online but Never Called 911, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Case, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve Group Chats and Fraternity Risk-Management Files Before They Are Scrubbed, the 180-Day University Notice-of-Claim Clock Is Running, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and Survival Action for Hours of Untreated Suffering, Pure Comparative Negligence, No Constitutional Damage Caps, 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 Your Child Dies at a Fraternity House in Flagstaff You are reading this because someone you love did not come home from a night at a fraternity house near Northern Arizona University. The police have called. The medical examiner has issued a report. A young man who was supposed to be starting his life is gone, and the people who were in that house with him are already talking to lawyers of their own. We need to tell you three things right now, before anything else. First: what happened to your family member was not an accident, and it was not his fault. When a pledge master forces four young men to share two bottles of vodka until they vomit, and then every person in that house watches him stop breathing and looks up “alcohol poisoning symptoms” on their phones instead of calling 911, that is not a tragedy that happened to someone. That is something that was done to someone. Second: there is a clock running that you cannot see. If any claim against Northern Arizona University is part of your family’s path to accountability, Arizona law requires formal written notice to the university within approximately 180 days of the date of death. That deadline falls in approximately late July 2026. It is a jurisdictional prerequisite — meaning if it is missed, the claim against the university is permanently barred, no matter how strong the evidence is. No court can waive it. Third: the evidence that proves what…

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Jul 21, 2026

Caleb Wilson Hazing Death at Southern University: Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing & Wrongful Death Attorneys, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead-Counsel Authority in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing Lawsuit, We Pursue the National Fraternity Organizations Behind Hazing Rituals and the Universities That Fail to Prevent Them, Fatal Blunt Chest Trauma From Boxing-Glove Strikes During an Unsanctioned Omega Psi Phi Pledging Ritual, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Move to Preserve the Chapter Communications, Risk-Management Files and Cardiac Pathology Records Before They Disappear, Louisiana’s Anti-Hazing Law and One-Year Wrongful-Death Prescriptive Period, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Baton Rouge Fraternity Hazing Death: What Families Need to Know Right Now If your family is reading this, someone you love is gone. A 20-year-old student at Southern University — a young man from Kenner with his whole life ahead of him — died in February 2025 after being punched in the chest with boxing gloves during what the fraternity called a pledging ritual. Five people have been charged. The criminal trial is set for August 19, 2026. Southern University expelled the fraternity. And you are sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand what any of this means for your family. We are going to tell you the truth about what the law allows, what the deadlines are, and what the other side is already doing. None of this is fair. All of it is real. And the most important thing we can tell you — before any other word on this page — is that Louisiana gives families one year from the date of death to file a wrongful death claim. That clock started ticking in February 2025. It may have already run out. If no civil petition was filed by approximately February 2026, your family’s right to hold the fraternity, the university, and the individuals financially accountable may be extinguished unless a Louisiana attorney can identify a tolling doctrine that preserved the claim. That is not a scare tactic. That is the law. And it is the first thing you need to discuss with…

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Jul 21, 2026

CJ Dickey Hazing Death at Bucknell: Exertional Rhabdomyolysis from 100 Up-Downs Ordered Despite Known Sickle Cell Trait, an 18-Year-Old Freshman Collapsed on His First Day of Football Practice in Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania — Attorney911 Pursues the University and Its Athletic Department in Hazing Wrongful-Death Cases Under the Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and NCAA Sickle Cell Trait Conditioning Protocols, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing and Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, We Pull the SCT Training Records, Practice Footage and Athletic Department Communications Before They Are Purged, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the University’s Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, Pennsylvania Wrongful Death and Survival Actions With No Caps on Punitive Damages for Reckless Conduct, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Wrongful-Death Filing Deadline Is Approaching — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The First Day That Should Never Have Happened: Hazing, Sickle Cell Trait, and a Death That Was Preventable Your son walked onto a college campus for his first day of football practice. He never walked off. Now a prosecutor has confirmed what you already knew in your bones: his death was not an accident. It was preventable, and someone who knew the danger pushed him through it anyway. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because your family is living through something like what happened at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania — or because you are the family of Calvin “CJ” Dickey Jr. and you are trying to understand what the criminal charges filed on July 6, 2026, mean for your civil case — this page is for you. We are Attorney911, a trial firm that takes Pennsylvania hazing and wrongful death cases, working with local counsel where required. We are not your lawyers yet. But we are going to tell you everything we know about how these cases are built, what the law allows, what the evidence shows, and what the university and its insurers are already doing to protect themselves — so that when you do call a lawyer, you call one who knows exactly what to do on day one. Here is the first thing you need to hear: your son’s death was not his fault. An 18-year-old freshman on his first day of collegiate practice cannot be expected to defy a conditioning coach’s direct orders.…

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Jul 21, 2026

OP faith community remembering K-State student who died after falling out of fraternity house window – KSHB 41 Kansas City

Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas Fraternity House Window Fall Death — Your Rights When Police Say “No Foul Play” You heard the words every family dreads, and then you heard the words that made it worse: “no foul play.” The police said it. The university repeated it. And now you are sitting with a grief that has no address, wondering whether those three words mean no one is responsible for what happened. They do not. They never have. And understanding why is the first thing you deserve to know. “No foul play” is a criminal determination. It means the police did not find evidence that someone committed a crime — no assault, no push, no hazing ritual. That finding answers one question: whether a prosecutor should bring charges. It says nothing — nothing at all — about whether the fraternity house maintained a safe premises, whether the window that allowed your loved one to fall met building code requirements, whether a broken lock or a low sill or a missing guard turned a second-story room into a trap, or whether the organizations that owned, operated, and controlled that house owed a duty they failed to meet. Those are civil questions, governed by a completely different body of law, and the police determination does not touch them. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Kansas wrongful death and premises liability cases, working with local counsel where required. We have spent over 27 years…

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Jul 21, 2026

Hazing-National: Adam Oakes’ Fraternity Hazing Death & Wrongful-Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Pursues the National Fraternity Organizations, Local Chapters and Universities Behind Greek-Life Hazing, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Bermudez v. Pi Kappa Phi Hazing & Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, the Alcohol-Fueled Pledging Rituals That Turn Fatal, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Fraternity Insurers Deny Coverage by Calling Hazing Unauthorized, We Move to Preserve the Group Chats, Pledging Materials and Prior-Complaint Records Before They Are Deleted, Wrongful-Death and Anti-Hazing Liability, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hazing Death Lawsuits: When a Fraternity Pledge Dies — Fraternity Liability, University Accountability, and the Evidence Clock You are reading this because someone’s child is gone. Maybe it was your child. Maybe it was your brother, your grandson, your friend’s son. Maybe you watched a documentary about what happened and you need to understand how the law answers a death that should never have occurred. A young man went to college, joined a fraternity, and never came home. A film about his death is premiering at one of the most prestigious film festivals in the country — and that documentary means the story is not going away. It means the public is about to learn what happened behind fraternity walls that a family has already known in grief. If you are a parent, a sibling, or a friend sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. trying to understand what the law can do after a hazing death, we are going to tell you everything — who can be held accountable, how the evidence disappears, what the fight looks like, and what your family’s rights actually are. This page is legal information, not legal advice. But it is written by trial lawyers who have stood in the courtroom on these cases, and it is written for you. The Documentary, the Death, and What Public Attention Means for Accountability A documentary about a hazing death premiering at a major film festival matters for more than one reason. It means the evidence…

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Jul 21, 2026

Savanna Jones, 18, Died After a Hazing Ritual in a Henderson Hall Dorm Room at Wilberforce University Required Her to Drink an Entire Bottle of Liquor While Resident Assistants Watched — Instead of Seeking Medical Help They Left Her Unconscious After She Vomited, the University’s Dry-Campus Policy Unenforced — Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the University and Its Housing Staff Under Ohio’s Civil Anti-Hazing Law in Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice and Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Campus Hazing Lawsuit, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Text Messages, the Circulated Photo, Dorm Access Logs and Toxicology Before the Evidence Window Closes, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hazing Wrongful Death in Wilberforce, Greene County, Ohio — What Ohio Law Lets Your Family Do Your daughter texted her friends that she was scared. She went anyway, because that is what an 18-year-old does when she wants to belong. The people who were supposed to watch over her — the resident assistants, the residence life staff, the campus safety officers at Wilberforce University — were either in the room or should have known what was happening inside it. They watched her drink an entire bottle of liquor as the price of admission to a social club. They watched her vomit. They watched her lose the ability to stand. A photograph of her unconscious on a bed circulated at 10:30 at night. And instead of calling 911, instead of driving her the twenty-five minutes to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, they carried her back to her dorm room and left her there. She died early the next morning. That is what happened. The question now is what Ohio law lets your family do about it. The answer is more than most people realize — and the university and its insurers already know it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases arising from hazing, and we are currently litigating a $10 million hazing wrongful death lawsuit that shares painful parallels with what happened at Wilberforce. We are writing this page so that a family in Greene County, Ohio — sitting at a kitchen table…

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Jul 21, 2026

Train Derailment & FELA Wrongful Death in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: A Union Pacific Freight Train Struck a Tractor-Trailer Stuck on the Oak Street Grade Crossing, Killing Two Railroad Workers and Injuring Three After the Derailed Train Hit the Chamber of Commerce Building — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Sunset Corridor, We Pursue Union Pacific Under FELA’s Railroad-Negligence Standard and the Trucking Company Behind the Stuck Trailer, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Event Recorder, the Grade Crossing Signal Records Under 49 CFR Part 234, and the Downtown Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment Kills Two Union Pacific Workers: FELA Claims, Evidence, and Legal Rights for Railroad Families If you are reading this page, someone you love may be one of the two Union Pacific railroad workers who did not come home from the Sunset Corridor on December 16, 2024. Or you may be one of the three people injured when the train left the tracks in downtown Pecos and struck the Chamber of Commerce building. Either way, you are in the first hours and days of something that will not get easier on its own — and there is one thing you need to hear before anything else: the law that governs what happened to your family is not the law that governs most workplace deaths. It is better. It is a federal statute called FELA, and it gives railroad workers and their families rights that ordinary workers’ compensation never provides — the right to sue the railroad directly, the right to full damages including pain and suffering, and the right to have a jury in Reeves County decide what a railroad worker’s life was worth. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm — and this page is written to tell you exactly what those rights are, what evidence is already disappearing, and what the railroad’s claims representatives are trained to do in the hours after a crash like this one. None of what follows is legal advice for your specific case. It is legal information — the same…

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Jul 21, 2026

Construction-Zone Tractor-Trailer Fatality on I-20 in Reeves County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Motor Carrier Behind the 2005 Freightliner Columbia That Struck 24-Year-Old Worker Patrick Daniel Purdon in an Active Work Zone and Kept Driving Until a Construction Supervisor Stopped the Rig, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice on the Permian Basin Freight Corridor, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, the Driver Qualification File and Post-Accident Drug-Test Results on the FMCSA’s 32-Hour Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Exemplary Damages for Failure to Stop and Render Aid as Conscious Disregard, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County, Texas: A Construction Worker Killed on I-20 — and the Evidence That Is Already Dying If you are reading this page, someone you love was working on Interstate 20 in Reeves County on April 3, 2025, and a tractor-trailer came through that construction zone and did not stop. The driver has been charged with failure to stop and render aid in a collision involving death. The trucking company that put that driver and that 20-year-old Freightliner on the road has not been named in the news. And every hour that passes without a preservation letter on file is an hour the evidence is erasing itself — the engine data, the driver’s qualification file, the construction-zone configuration, the drug test that federal law required within 32 hours and that window has already closed. We are going to tell you everything we know about what happened, what the law allows your family to pursue, what the trucking company is already doing to protect itself, and what evidence has to be frozen before it disappears. This is not a sales pitch. This is the education a family needs at 2 a.m. when the funeral is being planned and the adjuster has already called. The man who was killed was 24 years old. He was from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He was working in an active construction zone on I-20 near mile marker 28 in Reeves County — open, high-speed West Texas highway where the posted speed runs 75 to 80…

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Jul 21, 2026

Calvin ‘CJ’ Dickey Jr., 18, Dead From Exertional Rhabdomyolysis After Bucknell Football Hazing — Attorney911 Pursues Bucknell University and Its Athletic Program Behind 100 Up-Downs Ordered for a Freshman With Known Sickle Cell Trait, the NCAA SCT Conditioning Protocols That Were Ignored, We Preserve the Training-Room Footage and Compliance Records Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Pennsylvania’s Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law Creates Civil Remedies Alongside Wrongful-Death and Survival Claims, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lead Counsel in the Active $10M+ Hazing Institutional-Liability Lawsuit, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Statute of Limitations Is Running From the July 2024 Date of Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pennsylvania College Hazing Death: A Coach, a Known Condition, and a Freshman Who Never Came Home You sent your son to college on a football scholarship. He was eighteen years old, a thousand miles from home, in a small Pennsylvania town along the Susquehanna River where he was supposed to be learning pharmacy and playing the sport he loved. The next call you got was from a hospital. Then, two days later, the call no parent is built to receive. Now you are reading this at two in the morning because you just learned that the coach who ordered the workout that killed your child has been charged with crimes — and you want to know if there is anything left for your family to do. There is. But the window is closing faster than anyone has told you, and the people who owe you answers are counting on you not knowing that. We are Attorney911. We handle wrongful death cases and hazing death lawsuits, and right now we are going to tell you everything we know about what happened to a young man at a Pennsylvania university, what the law allows his family to do about it, and why the deadline to act may be measured in days. This page is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the information a family in your position needs before another day passes. What Happened: A First Practice, a Coach Who Knew, and a Death Two Days Later On July…

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Jul 21, 2026

West Texas City Employee Shooting: Attorney911 Pursues the Property Owners, Management Companies and Security Contractors Behind Foreseeable Firearm 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 Shooting Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage, Crime-History Reports and Calls-for-Service Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Third-Party Claims Beyond Workers’ Comp When a Public Employee Is Shot on the Job, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Negligent-Security Doctrine and the 51-Percent Comparative-Fault Rule, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West Texas City Employee Shooting — Your Legal Rights After a Shooting on the Job in Texas If you are reading this page, someone you love may be the city employee who was shot in West Texas — or you may be that employee, reading from a hospital bed while the rest of the family stands in a hallway trying to understand what happens next. Either way, you are in a moment you never planned for, and the questions hitting you are not the kind that wait for business hours. Who is responsible? Does it matter that the victim worked for the city? Is there money to recover, and from whom? What should you do right now, and what should you refuse to do? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases across Texas, including the regions of West Texas where this shooting occurred. We are writing this page because the details of this specific incident are still developing, and the families who need answers right now should not have to wait for the full picture to emerge before understanding their rights. What follows is not speculation about what happened. It is the legal framework — the real, specific, Texas-law framework — that governs what happens after a city employee is shot on the job, and the practical steps that determine whether a case survives or quietly dies before anyone files it. If you need to talk to someone right now, at this hour,…

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