Magnolia Retention Pond Drowning Lawyer: $1.5M–$5M Montgomery County Wrongful Death Case Against the Developer Who Left the Water Unfenced — Texas Attractive Nuisance Law and the 72-Hour Drone Evidence Window
Your Son Did Not Drown by Accident. Someone Left That Water Unfenced. If you are reading this from a hospital hallway in Montgomery County, from the front seat of a car parked outside the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office on Highway 75, or from a kitchen table where the phone will not stop ringing, we are sorry for what brought you here. We are Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña, and we have spent our careers standing next to Texas families in the hours and days after a company — through inattention, through negligence, or through a conscious decision that profit mattered more than a child's life — created the conditions that took someone they loved. On the evening of Tuesday, June 16, 2026, in the 30000 block of Turriff Circle in Magnolia, Texas, a fifteen-year-old boy entered floodwater at the edge of a construction site and a retention pond. The water exceeded his height. He went under. A 911 call went out immediately. Magnolia Fire Department led the response with dive operations; MCSO, Willis Fire Department, The Woodlands Fire Department, and the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management all responded. Sonar was deployed. His body was recovered that night. He was…