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Jun 23, 2026

Carrabassett Valley Wrongful Death & Domestic Violence Homicide at Sugarloaf Mountain Employee Housing — Attorney911 Holds the Resort and Its Corporate Parent for Negligent Security After Makayla Rose DeSantis Was Shot in a Unit the Resort Rented to Workers, 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 911 Audio, Housing Logs and Security Footage Before They Are Overwritten, Maine’s Wrongful-Death Act and Its $750,000 Cap on Non-Economic Damages, 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 Night Makayla DeSantis Was Killed You are not here because you read a news story. You are here because someone you love is dead, and the people who should have protected her did not. That is the only thing that matters in this room. On the evening of Sunday, March 8, 2026, a 911 call reached the Franklin County Regional Communications Center at about 7:30 p.m. The caller reported that Makayla Rose DeSantis had been shot at a residence on Left Bank in Carrabassett Valley — inside a condominium unit at the housing complex that Sugarloaf Mountain Ski Resort rents out to its seasonal and year-round workforce. She was twenty-three years old. She had been in a relationship with the man now charged with her murder for about seven years, since they were teenagers. Both worked at the resort. The man, twenty-four, was arrested the next Monday evening on a warrant issued by the Farmington District Court and is being held without bail at the Franklin County Jail. Makayla was still alive when first responders reached her. They took her to MaineHealth Franklin Hospital in Farmington, and from there she was airlifted to Maine Medical Center in Portland. She died from her injuries there. Her brother, Max DeSantis, started a GoFundMe within hours to bury his older sister. By Tuesday night more than ten thousand dollars had come in from people who never met her, because a community already understood what her family is only beginning to feel: that…

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Jun 23, 2026

Glendale Workplace Shooting & Wrongful Death at VAI Resort Construction Site — Attorney911 Holds the General Contractor and Subcontractor for Negligent Security After Coworker Firearm Discharge Killed Timothy McFarlin, 47, 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 Workplace Violence Cases, We Preserve the Site Surveillance Footage and Security Logs Before the Overwrite, Arizona’s Wrongful-Death Act and the OSHA General Duty Clause, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Fatal Workplace Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A 47-Year-Old Construction Worker Is Dead. The Arizona Wrongful Death Case Most Families Don’t Know They Have. The call comes at 2 a.m. or 1 p.m. — whenever the Maricopa County medical examiner’s office finishes the call nobody in your family will ever be ready for. A 47-year-old man. A construction site near State Farm Stadium. A fight with a coworker that turned into a fatal shooting. The shooter called 911 and stayed on scene. The police are still sorting motive and charges. If you are reading this because that 47-year-old is someone you love, we are sorry. We are not going to soft-pedal what the next weeks and months will look like. We are going to walk you through what Arizona law actually says about a death on a commercial construction site, who can be held responsible when a worker is killed by another worker, and what the family can do in the hours and days that follow — not months from now, hours. Our firm, Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — has been representing injured workers and grieving families across Arizona and the country for more than two decades. The two attorneys who will be in the room with you are Ralph P. Manginello, our managing partner, who has spent 27+ years in courtrooms including federal court and is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Houston Bar Association, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and Lupe Peña, our associate attorney, who…

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Jun 23, 2026

Fort Worth Motel Shooting Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Negligent Property Owners Liable for Fatal Gunfire in High-Crime Corridors, 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 and Prior Incident Reports Before They Are Overwritten, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Survival Claims for Families, 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 the Door Doesn’t Protect You: A Fort Worth Family’s Search for Answers After a Motel Killing The call comes at 2 a.m., or at 5 p.m. on a Tuesday. A voice at the other end says words like “they shot my brother at the motel,” or “my son was staying there for work and he never came home,” or “the police say it’s being investigated, but nobody’s telling us anything.” The 5800 block of East Lancaster Avenue sits in a corridor of Tarrant County that long-time residents know for what it carries — budget motels, transient rooms, the steady rhythm of people moving through. On the night of February 10, 2026, that rhythm broke with multiple gunshots in a motel parking lot. A man died at the scene. No arrests followed. The questions that begin at that moment — why was this motel not safe, who knew what, what could have stopped this — are the same questions a negligent-security wrongful-death lawyer exists to answer. We write this page for the family reading it. Not for the adjusters. Not for the corporate defense attorneys. For the person who just lost someone at a Fort Worth motel and needs to understand what Texas law actually lets them do, what evidence is already disappearing, and what the next seventy-two hours look like if they call us. The page is long because the topic is deep — and because the other side of this fight has been preparing for years while the…

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Jun 23, 2026

Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Quentin Mayberry Shot in the Head at Wapiti Lodge — Attorney911 Holds the Motel and Its Corporate Owners for Negligent Security in Durango, La Plata County, Colorado, 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 the Security Footage and Staff Logs Before the Overwrite, Colorado’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Felonious-Killing Exception to 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

Your Family Was Shot at a Motel on US 160. Here Is What Colorado Law Actually Does About It. We are sorry you are reading this. The people who come to our firm after a family member has been shot at a motel are not “cases” to us — they are fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers who just buried someone at a place that was supposed to be safe enough to spend the night. We will not dress this page up. We are going to tell you, in plain English, what Colorado law gives you when your loved one is killed at a place like the Wapiti Lodge in west Durango, who can be held responsible, what the deadline looks like, and exactly what to do in the next 72 hours so the proof does not disappear while you are still planning the funeral. The April 2026 sentencing of Johnny Cash Kimbrough to 44 years and 364 days in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the October 25, 2023 shooting death of Quentin Mayberry at the Wapiti Lodge is a criminal conviction. It puts the shooter in prison for most of his remaining life. It does not pay your family for the funeral, the lost wages, the empty chair at the table, the grief, or the years you will spend missing your person. The criminal court and the civil court are two different courts, with two different jobs, and two different standards of proof. The criminal case closed the criminal…

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Jun 23, 2026

FBI Shooting at Henrico County Motel Leaves One Dead & Bystander Seriously Injured — Attorney911 Pursues Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Claims Against the FBI for Excessive Force & Negligent Tactical Planning in High-Density Public Spaces, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the DOJ Sets Reserves & Denies Bystander Claims, We Move to Preserve Body-Worn Camera Footage & Motel Surveillance Before the Overwrite, Virginia’s Contributory Negligence Rule May Bar the Suspect’s Estate — But the Innocent Bystander Has a Pure Claim for Medical Bills, Trauma & Lost Wages — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What an FBI Shooting on Brook Road Means for the Family on the Ground and the Bystander Caught in the Crossfire If you are reading this in the days after the gunfire stopped in the parking lot of a motel on Brook Road in Henrico County, you are reading it for one of two reasons. You are the relative of the man the FBI shot to death on June 11, 2026, and you want to know whether the United States of America can be held responsible for ending his life. Or you are the bystander who was hit by a bullet that was not meant for you, and you want to know what your rights are against the agency that fired the shots. Both questions lead to the same place, but the legal roads are very different, and the difference is going to shape everything that happens next. We are trial lawyers at Attorney911. We take civil cases across state lines, including federal-tort and wrongful-death cases in Virginia. We are not your lawyers yet. The hour after you read this is when we can become them, and the steps in this article are designed so that when you call our intake line at 1-888-ATTY-911, you understand exactly what is about to happen, what the law actually allows, and what to do today. The rest of this article is built to empty every question a Virginia family or a Virginia bystander might have after a federal agent shoots in their direction.…

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Jun 23, 2026

Hotel Belmont Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Attorney911 Pursues Hotel Owners & Operators for Negligent Security & Over-Service of Alcohol After Unconscious Woman Found Nude in Vancouver Hotel Room — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles These Cases, We Preserve CCTV & Keycard Logs Before They’re Overwritten, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night the Basement Bar Served Her Past Unconscious You did not walk into that bar expecting to wake up in a stranger’s room with no memory of how you got there. You went to Hotel Belmont on Granville Street that January night in 2020 because it was a place to have a drink, meet people, and get back to your own room — Room 107 — before the night ended. Instead, somewhere between the bar on the bottom floor and your room upstairs, you lost everything: your memory, your clothes, your ability to consent, and for a while, your voice. When the police found you, you were nude and unconscious. When the officer roused you enough to ask what had happened, you said, “I wasn’t raped.” You said it because that is what trauma does — it makes you fight the truth out loud, even as the truth is forming underneath. That moment, when you told the police officer “I wasn’t raped,” is the single piece of the defence the other side will try to use against you. We know this. We know what tonic immobility looks like. We know what dissociative denial looks like. We know what it looks like when a brain that was medically too drunk to give consent eventually becomes aware enough to say the only thing it can say to a uniformed officer in a doorway: I wasn’t raped. The British Columbia Supreme Court justice who refused to strike your lawsuit saw through exactly…

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Jun 23, 2026

Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault at Jacksonville NC Hotel Near Camp Lejeune — Attorney911 Holds Choice Hotels International & Suburban Studios for Negligent Security After Amy Gurganus Was Roofied, Assaulted, and Left With Bruising, Bleeding, and Strangulation Injuries, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues These Cases, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Keycard Logs Before the Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Sexual Assault Survivors — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Place That Was Supposed to Be Safe Became the Crime Scene: How We Help Survivors in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina You checked into a hotel near Camp Lejeune for a quiet stay. You walked out having been drugged, sexually assaulted, and then told the place you paid to stay was no longer the right place for you. The police came and went without taking a single piece of evidence from your room. The report they wrote down did not even use the word “assault.” And now, somewhere between the bruises on your arms and the soreness in your neck, you are trying to figure out what your rights actually are, what evidence still exists, and who pays for what was done to you. We work these cases. Our team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — has built a trial practice around exactly the kind of catastrophic injury and negligent-security cases that arise when a property owner invites the public in and then fails to protect the people inside. Ralph Manginello leads our trial team with 27+ years in courtrooms including federal court, a journalist’s instinct for the document that proves the case, and a reputation for fighting the kind of corporate defendant that thinks a hotel chain is too big to answer for. Lupe Peña is our former insurance-defense attorney who spent years inside the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue cases just like yours, and now…

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Jun 23, 2026

East Memphis Short-Term Rental Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds the Property Owner and Rental Platform for Negligent Security After Valentine’s Day Party Turns Deadly, 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 CCTV and STR Communication Logs Before They Are Deleted, Tennessee’s Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Fatal Premises Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Phone Call You Never Wanted to Make It was a Friday night. Valentine’s Day weekend. Your loved one went out — maybe with friends, maybe to meet someone new. The address was a house in East Memphis, somewhere off Park Avenue, the kind of place you book on an app and pay for by the night. Music was loud enough to be heard from the street. Cars kept coming and going. By the time the call came, multiple weapons had already fired. The 911 recording would later note the time as just past 11:24 p.m. Six people ran to a white SUV and disappeared into the Memphis night. Someone performed CPR on the lawn. An ambulance came. Your loved one was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The next call told you the rest. If you are reading this, you are probably somewhere in the days or weeks after that call. You are not thinking about civil litigation right now. You are thinking about the funeral, about your children, about the empty chair, about why this happened. That is exactly where your mind should be. But the evidence clock is already running. And the people who profited from the property where this happened — the owner, the booking platform, the person who threw the party — are not waiting for you to grieve before they start protecting themselves. That is why we are here. This page answers every question the grieving family asks in the first month: who…

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Jun 23, 2026

Fatal Shooting in Midtown Lodge Motel Parking Lot on Philips Highway, Jacksonville — Attorney911 Pursues Negligent Security Claims Against Motel Ownership for Failing to Protect Guests in High-Crime Corridor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles Premises Liability, We Preserve Surveillance Footage and Prior Incident Reports Before They Are Overwritten, Florida’s Wrongful Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, 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 Phone Call That Comes at 4 a.m. The phone rings and the voice on the other end is someone you love, or someone calling because of someone you love. The words come out in pieces. Someone is dead. The police are at the motel. He was in his forties. They found him in the parking lot. There were gunshots, more than one round, then a pause, then more rounds. He never made it back to the room. If this is your family right now, we are sorry. We have sat at too many of these kitchen tables to pretend the next few words will help. They will not help the way you need. But they will tell you what is true, and what is coming, and who has to answer for it, and how to keep the evidence that will decide your case from disappearing before the sun comes up. On May 7, 2026, around 3 a.m., a man in his forties was found dead in the parking lot of the Midtown Lodge on Philips Highway in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded after motel management called and reported hearing gunfire. Officers found the man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced at the scene. A witness who asked not to be identified told reporters that he heard two shots, and then roughly fifteen minutes later heard about five more rounds in the same direction. JSO detained at least three people for questioning. The investigation continues. The…

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Jun 23, 2026

Columbia Motel Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds the Bush River Road Lodging Operator and Its Corporate Parent for Failing to Secure a Property Where Violent Crime Was Foreseeable, 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 Negligent Security Cases, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage and Police Call Logs Before the Overwrite, South Carolina’s Wrongful Death Act and the Innkeepers’ Duty to Protect Guests, 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 Phone Call That Changes Everything We have sat across from too many families in rooms like yours to dress this up. A man went to stay at a motel on Bush River Road in Columbia, South Carolina, on or about May 7, 2026. He did not come home. The Richland County Coroner’s Office later identified him. What we know from the public record is that he died from gunshot wounds on the premises of a commercial lodging property, and that Richland County and Columbia law enforcement responded that morning to investigate the circumstances of the fatal shooting. The case remains an active criminal investigation. The motel’s responsibility, the security decisions it made and the ones it didn’t, the prior calls for service at that address, the lighting that night, the cameras, the locks, the staff on duty, and the warnings that may or may not have reached the front desk are all questions that the criminal investigation may never answer for the family. They are precisely the questions a civil negligent-security case is designed to answer. We wrote this page for one reader. You are sitting in a living room in Columbia, or West Columbia, or Cayce, or Irmo, or somewhere in the Midlands, holding a phone, trying to figure out what the next 30 days look like. You are trying to figure out who is going to pay for the funeral, who is going to call you back, and whether anyone besides the person who pulled the trigger…

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