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Columbus, Mississippi Wrongful Death Lawyer: The Alabama Street Crash, the Passenger Who Tried to Get Out, and the 90-Day Notice That Starts Tonight The phone rings at 2 a.m. in Lowndes County. The voice on the other end says a name you have been saying since childhood, and then says that name is gone. By morning, the body-camera footage is already on the news. By afternoon, someone friendly from an insurance company is leaving a message. By the end of the week, a defense lawyer in another city has already filed an answer in his head — this child was in the car, so the child assumed the risk — and he is wrong. He is wrong because the bodycam footage the Police Chief played at his own press conference shows a young man reaching for the door handle and saying, out loud, the words that tear the assumption-of-risk defense down at the root: I’m getting out. We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC — and we are writing this page for one person: the family of the passenger who died in the crash at the Food Giant on Alabama Street in Columbus, Mississippi.…