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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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

San Diego Airbnb Ambush & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Pursues the Short-Term Rental Platform and Delivery Apps That Enabled a Stalker to Lure a Pregnant 17-Year-Old Outside Before the Fatal Shooting, 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 Domestic-Violence Cases, We Preserve the DoorDash Order Logs and Lyft Ride Records Before They Are Purged, California’s Wrongful-Death Act and the Surviving Infant’s Catastrophic Brain Injury, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What This Page Is About, and Why You Are Reading It at 2 a.m. If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from a trip to San Diego. Jariah Edwards was seventeen. She was eight months pregnant. She was on a family vacation in Bay Park when a man she had already blocked, already feared, and already reported to family members drove across state lines in a Lyft, ordered her DoorDash flowers and then a DoorDash vase, and used the next delivery to lure her outside the Airbnb alone. He shot her in the head. Her baby girl was delivered by emergency cesarean at thirty-two weeks, with the prosecutor describing “minimal brain activity as a result of loss of oxygen the child endured while being inside its dead mother.” The shooter, Trevon Williams, now twenty-one, has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder of the baby, and possession of a machine gun, with a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait that puts the death penalty on the table. The criminal case will run its course in the San Diego County District Attorney’s office and the Superior Court. That is one track. The civil case is a…

Los Angeles Assault & Domestic Violence Lawsuits Against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: Attorney911 Pursues the Music Mogul and Bad Boy Records for Physical Assault, Chokeholds, Hair Dragging, and the ‘Don’t Tell Anyone’ Bribe Attempt at the InterContinental Hotel — 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 Surveillance Footage, Text Messages, and Medical Evidence of Golfball-Sized Welts and Black Eyes Before They Disappear, California’s Extended Statute of Limitations for Survivors of Gender-Motivated Violence, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Saw It. The Hotel’s Camera Saw It. Now the Question Is What You Do. Maybe you are the woman who finally told your story to a federal jury, or you are the friend who sat in that courtroom, or you are the man who worked the door that night and cannot unsee what you saw. Maybe you are a sister, a mother, a daughter who has been holding this for years. Or maybe you are a person who has been reading the headlines, recognizing patterns in your own life that you have not yet named out loud. We have spent twenty-four years on the trial side of cases like this — catastrophic assault, negligent security, the fight after a criminal case ends. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a Texas-based trial firm that takes on catastrophic injury and negligent-security cases nationwide, including California. We work on contingency — you pay nothing unless we recover. Free consultations, twenty-four hours a day, in English or in Spanish. Hablamos Español. Call 1-888-ATTY-911. This page is for you. We are going to walk you through, in plain English, what happened in that InterContinental Los Angeles hallway in March…

Fort Worth Hotel Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Fairfield Inn & Suites Master Key Negligence — Attorney911 Holds Marriott International and MCR Hotels Accountable for Front Desk Employee’s Gross Violation of Industry Security Protocols, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Sexual Assault Cases, We Secure the Lock Audit and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, Severe Psychological Trauma and Ongoing Distress for Victims J.E. and L.T., the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Person Who Let Him In Worked Behind the Front Desk You checked into a hotel in downtown Fort Worth for a few nights of work. A stranger knocked on the door, said he was the husband of one of you. A few hours later, that same stranger was inside the room because an employee of the hotel used a master key to open the door for him. What happened next is something no survivor should have to relive, and what happens next in court is something we can control. The case filed in October 2024 against the operators of that hotel — MCR Investors, MCR Hotels, the entity that runs the building, and the property-management arm — is not a mystery of “how did he get in.” Surveillance video answers that. The mystery is a simpler and uglier one: a hospitality employee used the master key entrusted to the front desk to admit a stranger into a guest’s room in the middle of the night, and the company that wrote the policies and trained (or did not train) the employee is now being asked to answer for the result. We represent survivors of sexual assault and the families who…

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