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Jul 20, 2026

Three Dead in East Highway 80 Shooting, Midland County: Attorney911 Pursues the Property Owner and Security Contractor When Foreseeable Criminal Violence Goes Unprevented on the Permian Basin Corridor, 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 Pull Surveillance Footage and Prior Calls-for-Service Before the Overwrite Erases the Proof, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Dead in Midland County Shooting on East Highway 80: Your Family’s Legal Rights If you are reading this, someone you love was one of the three people found dead from gunshot wounds on the morning of June 22, 2026, in the 5400 block of East Highway 80 in Midland County. You are in the first hours or days after a death that does not make sense, and the sheriff’s office is still investigating. That investigation will take time. The evidence that decides whether your family has a case will not wait. This is not a news summary. This is the legal landscape your family is standing in right now, written by the trial team at Attorney911. We handle shooting and wrongful death cases in Texas. We wrote this page because the most important things happening around your loved one’s death are invisible: the surveillance footage from businesses along that corridor that is already being overwritten on a rolling cycle, the 911 recordings sitting in a dispatch system, the prior police calls to that same address that may show whether the property owner knew the danger was there. Every one of those records is on a clock, and some of them are already running out. The 5400 block of East Highway 80 sits on the eastern edge of Midland, along a commercial and industrial corridor that carries traffic toward Odessa through the heart of the Permian Basin. That stretch of road is a mix of businesses, older motels, industrial yards,…

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Jul 20, 2026

Fallen Ector County Firefighter Lt. Isai Huerta, Who Died June 14 From Injuries Sustained Battling an Odessa Trailer-Home Fire: Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Property Owners, Equipment Manufacturers and Third Parties Behind Fatal Trailer-Home Fires When Workers’ Comp Is Not the Only Remedy, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Line-of-Duty Death Cases, We Move to Preserve the Lubbock Autopsy Report, Fire Cause-and-Origin Findings, SCBA and Turnout Gear, Dispatch Audio and Incident-Command Logs Before the Fire Scene Is Remediated and Radio Recordings Are Lost to Auto-Delete Cycles, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Doctrine With the Workers’-Comp Exclusive-Remedy Barrier and Its Gross-Negligence Exception, the Firefighter’s Rule and Its Limits, NFPA and Texas Commission on Fire Protection Standards, the Statute of Limitations Running From the Date of Death, 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, Ector County, Texas: When a Firefighter Falls, the Family Has Questions the System Is Not Volunteering More than 150 first responders from several states traveled to Odessa in June 2026 to honor a man who died doing what every one of them has sworn to do — run toward the fire. Lt. Isai Huerta, an Ector County firefighter, died on June 14 from injuries he suffered while battling a trailer home fire in Odessa. His body was taken to Lubbock, roughly 150 miles northeast, for autopsy — a distance that tells you the system itself recognized this death required a look from outside the responding jurisdiction. A public funeral was held at the Ector County Coliseum. The community showed up. That showing is not ceremony; it is evidence of something the law cares about — this man’s life had measurable value to the people who depended on him, and the circumstances of his death deserve an answer that goes deeper than a death certificate. We are writing this page for one person: the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Midland or anywhere across the Permian Basin, being told that workers’ compensation is the only door open to them. That may be true. It also may be the most common, most expensive mistake a grieving firefighter family makes — because it forecloses rights the family does not yet know they have. If a third party’s negligence caused the fire, or if equipment that was…

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Jul 20, 2026

Ed Scott, Midland, Texas City Employee and Longtime Umpire, Fatally Shot in a Mass Shooting on His Way to Work: Attorney911 Pursues Wrongful-Death and Negligent-Security Claims Against the Property Owners and Security Operators Who Failed to Prevent Foreseeable Gun Violence, the Going-and-Coming Rule That Bars Workers’ Comp for Commuting Employees Points to Negligent Security as the Primary Civil Theory, 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 Surveillance Footage, Prior-Incident Reports and Police Calls-for-Service Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Premises-Liability Foreseeability, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland, Texas Mass Shooting — What Families Need to Know About Legal Rights After a Shooting Death If you are reading this because someone you love was killed or injured in a mass shooting in Midland, Texas — we want you to hear this first: what happened to your family is not something you “move on” from. It is something you survive, and the law gives you tools to hold people accountable who could have prevented it. The fact that you are searching for legal information right now, in the middle of grief, tells us you are already doing the hardest part — protecting your family’s future while everything feels like it is falling apart. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases across Texas, including cases that involve mass-shooting wrongful death claims and negligent security / premises liability claims against property owners who failed to protect the people on their land. This page is written for you — the person at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a phone full of unanswered messages and a future that just changed shape. Everything below is legal information, not legal advice. Everything below is free to read. And if any of it connects to what your family is going through, the call is free too: 1-888-ATTY-911. The One Question That Decides Everything in a Mass Shooting Case: Where Did It Happen? The first and most important thing we need to determine is the…

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Jul 20, 2026

Head-On Crash on FM 1788 Near Andrews, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Permian Basin Highway Collisions, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Auto Insurer When an Unsafe Passing Maneuver Crosses the Centerline Into Oncoming Traffic, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Head-On Injury Claims, We Move to Secure the DPS Crash Report and Both Vehicles’ EDR Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Even Injuries First Called Minor in a 71-Year-Old Like Charles Troxell Can Reveal Delayed Cervical and Brain Trauma After a Head-On Impact at Highway Speed, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Comparative-Fault Doctrine and UM/UIM Recovery Rights When the At-Fault Driver Is Deceased — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews, Texas FM 1788 Head-On Collision: When an Unsafe Pass on a Two-Lane Highway Changes Everything If you are reading this, you were probably on FM 1788 on a Friday afternoon. Or someone you love was. A southbound driver decided to pass another vehicle on a two-lane Farm-to-Market road in Andrews County, in the oil patch of West Texas. The pass was unsafe. A northbound vehicle was right there, in its own lane, doing what it was supposed to do. The impact was head-on. One driver did not survive. The other was loaded into an ambulance and driven roughly thirty-five miles south to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa — the regional Level II trauma center for the Permian Basin — where the word they heard was “minor injuries.” We need to talk about that word. “Minor.” We handle car accident cases across Texas, and the single most dangerous word in your case is the one the hospital used before the full picture developed. A head-on collision on a rural highway — where the speed limit is often 70 mph and two vehicles closing on each other can combine for a closing speed above 140 mph — does not produce “minor” injuries even when the initial scan comes back clean. Not for a 71-year-old body. Not for any body. And the insurance adjuster who calls you the day after the crash, who sounds so concerned, who says “we just want to help you put this behind you” — that person is…

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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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