Martin, Tennessee

Martin, Tennessee Wrongful Death Lawsuit After Deputy Derrick Bonham Fatally Shot at Days Inn — Attorney911 Holds Negligent Security Property Owners and Pursues Liability for Foreseeable Violence, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Officer Line-of-Duty Deaths, We Preserve Gas Station and Hotel Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Loop, Tennessee’s Wrongful Death Act Allows Damages for the Spouse and Three Young Children Left Behind — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Meeting the Family Where You Are Right Now If you are reading this, you are most likely a member of Deputy Derrick Bonham’s family, or a close friend of the family searching for answers on their behalf. We are sorry for what you are going through. The men and women of the Weakley County Sheriff’s Office who knew and served with Deputy Bonham are grieving, and the family — his wife Nicole and their three young children — is facing a loss that no legal document can soften. We also know what else you are facing beyond the grief: the financial reality of losing a husband and father in his prime, the daily questions about who will provide, the worry about your children’s future, the insurance calls already starting, and the sense that decisions are being asked of you before you have had time to catch your breath. Every line that follows is written for one reason — to help you understand what the law in Tennessee actually allows, what evidence exists right now that will not exist in three months, and what a trial team that does this work can do for your family. The call to our firm…

Martin, Tennessee Days Inn Shooting & Wrongful Death of Deputy Derrick Bonham: Attorney911 Holds the Motel and Gas Station Owners for Negligent Security After Gunfire from a Fleeing Vehicle Killed a 37-Year-Old Sheriff’s Deputy Leaving a Wife and Three Young Children — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve the Hotel and Gas Station CCTV Before the 72-Hour Overwrite, Tennessee’s Wrongful-Death Act Allows Recovery for the Pecuniary Value of a First Responder’s Life — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Kitchen Table in Weakley County, the Morning After Nicole, your husband Derrick was thirty-seven. He had been a deputy with the Weakley County Sheriff’s Office for years — the kind of officer who answered the call without checking the clock, because that is what he signed up to do. He kissed you goodbye in the small hours of January 30, 2026, and headed out to a Days Inn on a report of possible shots fired. He never came home. You are now raising a seven-year-old, a four-year-old, and a three-year-old without the man whose badge was on the dresser. Your children will grow up answering questions about their father from teachers, from coaches, from friends who do not understand what it means to lose a parent to gunfire at three in the morning. We are sorry for what has happened to your family. We are a trial firm that has spent decades standing beside families in West Tennessee and across this state when a commercial property, a roadway, or a corporate defendant failed to protect someone they should have protected. The page below is the unfiltered truth about what Tennessee law permits your family to do, who can be…

Martin, Weakley County, Tennessee Line-of-Duty Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawyers — Attorney911 Fights for Deputy Derrick Bonham’s Family After Gunfire at Days Inn on University Street, We Hold the Hotel’s Management and Security Providers Accountable for Negligent Security That Enabled the 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 These Cases, We Secure the Hotel and Gas Station Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Loop Erases It, Tennessee’s Wrongful Death Act Allows Recovery for the Pecuniary Loss of a Young Deputy’s Career and the Consortium of Three Young Children, 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 Family of Deputy Derrick Bonham Deserves the Full Truth About What Happened in Martin Nicole, on the morning of January 30, 2026, your husband Derrick answered a call for help. He did what deputies do. He drove to the Days Inn on University Street in Martin, Tennessee, because someone reported shots fired there. Within minutes of arriving, while he and other officers were working the scene, a man in a vehicle at a nearby gas station opened fire. Derrick was struck. He was taken to Volunteer Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was 36 years old. You have been married for nine years. You have three young children who will grow up without their father. The man accused of killing him is in custody on a charge of first-degree murder. We are sorry. Nothing a law firm writes on a page can change what you are living through right now. But we can tell you the truth about what Tennessee law allows you to do next — because the criminal case against the shooter is only part of what a family in your position can pursue. The criminal system will handle Khristi Dawn Cunningham, 44, of Ohio,…