Georgia Personal Injury

Jun 23, 2026

Norcross Hotel Shooting Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Negligent Property Owners Accountable for 17 Rounds Fired into Room 229, Killing Enrique Romero Sanchez & Wounding Francisco Garcia Carmona — 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 Surveillance Footage & Prior Incident Reports Before They Vanish, Georgia’s Wrongful-Death Act & Foreseeability of Violent Crime in High-Risk Hospitality Zones, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Family’s Worst Nightmare, and the Question No One Will Answer You are reading this at a kitchen table in Gwinnett County, or maybe in the back seat of a car parked outside the courthouse on Wisteria Drive, or in the house where a chair sits empty. Your brother, your husband, your father walked into a hotel room on an ordinary night in May 2021 and never came out. Seventeen shots. A stranger — a man he had never met, who had no reason on earth to single him out — fired them from outside the building. The shooter was arrested, pleaded guilty to felony murder, and is now serving a life sentence the state will never let him leave. The man who pulled the trigger has been held accountable. But that is not the end of your family’s story — not if you want it to be. The question that wakes you at 3 a.m. is the question the criminal system cannot answer: who was supposed to stop this from happening before it ever reached the door of Room 229? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña and our trial team represent…

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Jun 23, 2026

Stone Mountain Hotel Shooting & Wrongful Death of Officer Pradeep Tamang — Attorney911 Holds the Hotel Owner and Management for Negligent Security After Fraudulent Rental Allowed Armed Suspect Kevin Andrews to Ambush Responding Gwinnett County Police, 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 First-Responder Cases, We Preserve the Keycard Logs, Surveillance Footage and Prior Calls-for-Service Before They Are Purged, Georgia’s Wrongful-Death Act Measures the Full Value of Life, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hotel Door Becomes a Crime Scene: A Stone Mountain Officer’s Family’s Path to Justice If you are reading this in the days after you lost your son, your fiancé, or your brother to gunfire at a hotel in Stone Mountain, we are sorry for what has happened to your family. Twenty-five years old. Engaged to be married. Less than a year in uniform. A life cut short by a single decision made inside a room the hotel should never have rented in the first place. We cannot bring him back. We can do the next thing that matters: hold every party with money and a duty to answer for what happened accountable under Georgia law, in a Georgia courtroom, in front of a Georgia jury. This page explains exactly what the law allows, what the hotel owes your family, what the hotel’s insurance company is going to do in the next thirty days to try to pay you as little as possible, and what we do to stop that. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. What follows is general legal information about Georgia wrongful-death and premises-liability law as it…

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Jun 22, 2026

Lawrenceville, Gwinnett County Hotel Shootout & Wrongful Death of Officer Pradeep Tamang: Attorney911 Holds the Hotel Ownership and Management for Negligent Security After Directing Officers into a Fatal Ambush, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Police Lives, We Preserve the Hotel CCTV and Body-Worn Camera Footage Before the Overwrite, Georgia’s Wrongful Death Act Allows Recovery of the Full Value of Life for a 25-Year-Old Officer, 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 an Officer Goes to Help and Doesn’t Come Home We represent the family of a 25-year-old Gwinnett County police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty, and the family of the second officer who was seriously wounded. We also stand ready to help the wounded officer and his family in the days, months, and years ahead. If you are reading this because a loved one in a badge was lost or hurt at a hotel on February 1, 2026, we want you to know what the law actually allows you to do, what the hotel that hosted the encounter is already doing, and how quickly the proof in this case starts to disappear. On the morning of February 1, 2026, Gwinnett County Police Officer Pradeep Tamang, age 25, and a fellow officer responded to a report that someone had used a fraudulent credit card at a hotel near Stone Mountain, about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta. The front desk clerk directed the two officers to the specific room of the person suspected of the fraud. The suspect invited the officers into the room. The encounter became a shootout. Officer Tamang was fatally wounded. The second…

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Jun 22, 2026

Athens, Georgia Human Trafficking & Commercial Sex Acts at Days Inn — Attorney911 Holds Hotel Chains and Their Franchisees Accountable Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Targeting the Corporate Profit Centers That Enable Trafficking Hubs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Exploitation Cases, We Preserve Hotel Guest Registries, Surveillance Footage, and Staff Training Records Before They Are Purged, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Violent Crime — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Are Not What Happened to You in That Room If you are reading this at 2 a.m. in Athens, or in Covington, or somewhere in New York where you were taken from, or in any bedroom in this country you ended up in after a Days Inn room key changed hands for cash we know it is not a “consultation” you were ever planning to make. You may not even call what happened to you “trafficking.” You may call it survival, or the only option, or something you are not ready to put a name on yet. You may be sixteen or you may be forty-six. You may still be inside the situation, or you may have gotten out last week, or ten years ago. You may be the parent who got the phone call. Whatever brought you to this page, one thing is certain: what happened to you was a crime, and the people who made money from it can be made to answer in a courtroom. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We represent survivors of sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in civil cases against the businesses that profited from their abuse. We…

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Jun 22, 2026

Norcross Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds the Hotel Owners and Corporate Franchisor for Racketeering and Premises Liability Under Georgia’s Broad RICO Statute, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Survivors, We Secure Guest Registries, Security Footage, and 911 Dispatch Logs Before They Are Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Room at the Norcross Red Roof Inn: Why the Hotel, Not Just the Trafficker, Can Be Held to Account If you are reading this in the middle of the night, you are probably not here for a primer. You are here because something happened to you or to someone you love at the Red Roof Inn on Brook Hollow Parkway in Norcross — and you are starting to ask the question that most survivors do not ask soon enough: the man who hurt me is one person, but the room he kept going back to, the front desk that kept handing him a key, the brand on the sign — do they answer for this too? The short answer is: yes, federal law gives you that door. The longer answer is what this page is for. We are a Texas-based trial firm with a Georgia practice, and we handle exactly these cases — civil rights and premises liability suits against hotels, motels, and short-term-rentals for survivors of sex trafficking. Ralph Manginello has spent more than 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court; Lupe Peña is a former insurance-defense attorney who now works the inside of the system against it,…

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Jun 22, 2026

Marietta Hotel Human Trafficking & Sexual Assault Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Commercial Lodging Chains Accountable for Negligent Security on Delk Road Corridor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Survivors, We Preserve Hotel Surveillance Footage and Guest Registration Records Before the Overwrite, Rape and Aggravated Sodomy of an 18-Year-Old and Prolonged Molestation of a 16-Year-Old, Georgia’s Civil Remedy for Human Trafficking and the TVPRA’s Private Right of Action, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Victims of Violent Crime — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

An Eighteen-Year-Old Escaped a Marietta Hotel. The Door She Walked Out Of Has Been Open Ever Since — and It Opens the Same Way for Anyone Else. We are writing for the person reading this at 2 a.m. — for the survivor who broke free, for the parent who just learned what happened inside a chain motel off Delk Road, for the sister or brother who got the phone call. We are also writing for the survivor who never got out, who is reading this on a borrowed phone, who does not yet know that the law inside this state and the law inside this country both belong to her now. You are not to blame. You did not choose this. And the question you have right now — can I sue the hotel where this happened? — has a real answer. It is yes, in most cases. What follows is exactly how the answer works, what evidence is dying while you read, and what we do the day you call. The Federal Civil Remedy: 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a) The civil remedy that lets a trafficking survivor reach the business that profited sits at 18 U.S.C. § 1595(a). We quote…

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Jun 22, 2026

Sex Trafficking Civil Lawsuit Against Red Roof Inn — Attorney911 Holds the National Budget Motel Chain Liable Under the 2008 Trafficking Statute for Knowingly Profiting from Prolonged Rape, Physical Battery, and Psychological Coercion of Minors and Adults at Atlanta’s Smyrna and Buckhead Locations, We Pursue the Corporate Defendants and Franchisees Named in 42 Federal Lawsuits Across 39 States, 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 Internal Emails, Guest Folios, and Housekeeping Logs Before They Are Purged, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuits: What Survivors Need to Know About the Federal Law That Holds Hotels Accountable If you are reading this page, something has already gone wrong. Maybe you were trafficked at a Red Roof Inn — in Smyrna, in Buckhead, at a location off an interstate exit somewhere between here and Texas. Maybe the people who ran the rooms have been arrested and the motel is still operating as if nothing happened. Maybe a caseworker, a detective, or a relative handed you a number and said “call a lawyer.” Maybe no one has said that yet, and you found this page because you typed the name of the motel and a word you are not sure you are allowed to type into a search engine. Whatever brought you here, this page is for you. It is not a news article. It is a working map of the federal civil law that lets a survivor of sex trafficking hold a hotel chain accountable — the law Congress wrote, the cases that have tested it, the evidence the defense will try to destroy, the clock you are racing, and the path our firm walks with survivors and their…

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Jun 22, 2026

Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Atlanta Victims Fight for Justice Under Federal TVPA—Attorney911 Holds the Budget Hotel Chain Accountable for Knowingly Profiting from Trafficking, 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 Hotel Room Logs, Security Footage, and Internal Emails Before They’re Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Catastrophic Injury Victims—Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Atlanta Sex Trafficking Lawyer: Holding Hotels Accountable Under Federal Law When Atlanta Became a Trafficking Corridor You checked in expecting a room for the night. Or you were moved from city to city by someone who told you no one else could help you. Or you are the parent who got a call from Atlanta you cannot stop replaying. The room where it happened may have been a budget motel off I-285 near College Park, a roadside Days Inn near Hartsfield-Jackson, a weekly-rate WoodSpring Suites in Forest Park, a Red Roof near the airport, or an extended-stay on Memorial Drive in unincorporated DeKalb County, just outside the Atlanta city line. The men who used that room paid the hotel. The hotel gave them a key. That transaction - and the hotel’s choice to keep giving a key after the signs were obvious - is what federal law was written to punish. This page is written for the survivor, and for the family member or advocate sitting beside them. It explains, in plain language, the federal civil remedy that lets a trafficking survivor sue the hotel - and, in many cases, the brand on the sign - for knowingly profiting from…

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Jun 22, 2026

11 Survivors of Sex Trafficking at Atlanta Red Roof Inn Locations Reach Midtrial Settlement — Attorney911 Holds Hotel Corporate Owners Accountable Under TVPRA and Georgia 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 Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Room Folios, Staff Logs and Prior Police Calls Before They Vanish, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hotel Profits From Trafficking: The Red Roof Atlanta Case and Your Rights Under Georgia Law You are reading this for one of two reasons. Either you are a survivor who is finally putting words to what happened to you in an Atlanta hotel room — years of it, maybe, when every instinct told you something was wrong but no one with power looked at you long enough to see it. Or you are a mother, a sister, a daughter, a friend who started asking questions and could not stop, because the answers did not line up with the story the hotel kept telling. If that is you, take a breath. What happened to you was not bad luck, not a “lifestyle,” not something you caused. Under federal and Georgia law, the place that rented the room to the man who hurt you may have a duty to you that runs deeper than the franchisor’s standard “we screen our drivers” boilerplate. And there is a new precedent you need to understand: in the summer of 2024, eleven women who were trafficked at two Red Roof Inn locations in Atlanta settled their civil case against the hotel’s corporate owners in…

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Jun 22, 2026

Landmark $40M Sex Trafficking Verdict Against Decatur Hotel — Attorney911 Fights for Survivors Under the Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Holding Hotels Accountable for Knowingly Profiting from Minors Trafficked on Their Premises, 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 Hotel Registration Logs, Staff Testimony and Police Call Records Before They Disappear, Georgia’s First Hotel Liability Verdict Under TVPA Sets Precedent for Future Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Help Survivors of Hotel Sex Trafficking in Decatur and Across Georgia Hold the Businesses That Profited From Their Abuse Accountable If you were trafficked at a hotel in DeKalb County, or if you are a parent who discovered what happened to your child in a room on Memorial Drive or anywhere along that corridor, we want you to hear this clearly: the law gives you a real path forward, and you do not have to take on the hotel chain alone. The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, the same statute that produced a $40 million verdict against the operator of the United Inn & Suites in Decatur in 2025, was written to reach exactly the people who profited from your suffering. Our firm, Attorney911, takes these cases across Georgia, and we work with survivors and families from Decatur to Macon to Savannah. We do not get paid unless we win your case, and your first call costs you nothing. “An individual who is a victim of a violation of this chapter may bring a civil action against the perpetrator (or whoever knowingly benefits, or attempts or conspires to benefit, financially or by receiving anything of value from participation…

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