Odessa, Texas

Jul 18, 2026

Pat’s Place Shooting on Andrews Highway: One Fatality, One in Emergency Surgery — Odessa, Ector County, Texas Negligent-Security and Wrongful-Death Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the TABC-Licensed Bar Operator and the Property Owner Behind Foreseeable Late-Night Violence, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Sets Reserves and Denies These Cases, We Move to Secure the Surveillance Footage on Its Overwrite Loop, the Calls-for-Service History and TABC Complaint Files Before They Are Purged, Texas Wrongful-Death, Dram-Shop and Premises-Liability Doctrine with Modified Comparative Fault, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Shooting at Pat’s Place: Negligent Security, Wrongful Death, and What Texas Law Allows If you are reading this because someone you love was shot at Pat’s Place on Andrews Highway — or because you were the one in surgery at a hospital in Odessa while your family waited in a hallway that smelled like antiseptic and sounded like machines counting someone’s pulse — then you already know the worst part. The part that comes next is what we can help with. A shooting inside a commercial establishment after 11 p.m. on a Friday night is not just a crime. It is also a civil question: did the business that invited people through its doors do what the law requires to keep them alive? That question has a deadline in Texas, and the evidence that answers it is already disappearing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases in Texas, including negligent-security claims arising from shootings at bars, venues, and commercial establishments. This page is a full analysis of what happened at 7405 Andrews Highway on November 4, 2022, what Texas law says about a business’s duty when violence walks through its door,…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Odessa Plane Crash & Aviation Wrongful Death Attorneys: TechCorr CEO Vincent Summa and Manager Joleen Weatherly Killed When Their Aircraft Could Not Gain Altitude and Struck Powerlines in Ector County, Texas, a Ground Resident Hospitalized in the Trailer-Home Fire, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Permian Basin Aviation Litigation, We Pursue Aircraft and Engine Manufacturers, Maintenance Providers and Owners Within the General Aviation Revitalization Act’s Statute of Repose, NTSB Reports Are Inadmissible in Civil Litigation Under Federal Law So We Launch Independent Investigation of Aircraft Wreckage and Engine Records Before Evidence Is Lost, Density-Altitude and Climb-Performance Physics for West Texas Summer Operations, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Aviation Insurers Value and Deny These Claims, Texas Wrongful Death Act and the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If Your Family Lost Someone in the Odessa Plane Crash, the Clock Is Already Running — and the Evidence Is Already Dying If you are reading this because someone you love was on that aircraft that went down in Odessa on August 20, 2024 — or because you or someone you care about was hurt on the ground when it fell — you are standing in a place no one prepares you for. A plane crash is sudden, total, and public in a way that makes the grief feel like it belongs to everyone except you. The news cycle moves on in a day. The federal investigation will take a year or more. And the people who lost everything are left at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a phone full of calls from people who say they want to help and a hollow feeling that none of those calls are the one that actually matters. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that handles wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, and we built this page because what happened in Ector County that Tuesday morning sits at the intersection of…

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Jul 18, 2026

Mobile IV Therapy Wrongful Death & Medical Malpractice in Odessa, Ector County — 30-Year-Old Ashly Flores Died After a Nurse Infused Nearly a Liter of IV Fluid in Under 30 Minutes With No Patient Screening or Monitoring, Causing Fluid Overload, Seizure and Cardiac Arrest, Attorney911 Pursues the Mobile IV Wellness Companies and the Nurses They Deploy, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Anchor Causation in the Death Certificate and Preserve the IV Equipment, Corporate Safety Protocols and Nurse Training Records on a 30-Day Evidence Clock, Texas Medical-Liability Law Requires an Expert Report on the Nursing Standard of Care and the Wrongful-Death Act Gives the Spouse, Children and Parents Each an Independent Claim, Gross-Negligence Standard for Punitive Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Mobile IV Therapy Wrongful Death: When a Wellness Treatment Turns Fatal If you are reading this because someone you love died after a mobile IV therapy session — in Odessa, in the Permian Basin, anywhere in Texas — you are probably sitting with a fact that makes no sense. A nurse came to your home. The treatment was supposed to make your loved one feel better. Instead, she had a seizure. Her heart stopped. She was taken to Medical Center Hospital, and within hours she was gone. And the death certificate does not say “natural causes” or “unknown.” It says fluid overload. It says rapid infusion of intravenous solution. A government-issued document, signed by a medical professional who examined your loved one, says the IV killed her. That document is the most powerful piece of evidence in your case. And your case is real. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, and we are writing this page because what happened in Odessa on April 2, 2023, is not an isolated tragedy. Mobile IV therapy businesses have spread across Texas — from Houston to Austin to Midland-Odessa — offering…

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Jul 18, 2026

Lt. Isai Huerta, 29, a nine-year Odessa Fire Rescue veteran, died battling a residential trailer fire on South Westcliff Road that hospitalized up to seven firefighters — Attorney911 brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ years of federal-court trial practice to line-of-duty wrongful-death cases in Ector County, we pursue the property owner who concealed hazards or violated fire code, the manufacturer behind the manufactured home’s electrical system and fire-safety standards under the federal HUD Code, and the governmental employer when conscious indifference to NFPA operational standards turns a rescue into a fatality, the Texas firefighter’s rule bars some claims but strict product liability and gross negligence bypass it entirely, Lupe Peña the former insurance-defense attorney who knows how the claims machine values and denies first-responder deaths, we preserve fire scene debris, SCBA data logs, radio transmissions and CAD records before the scene is released and the overwrite cycles erase them, the firm has recovered millions in wrongful-death cases — free 24/7 consultation, no fee unless we win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Firefighter Line-of-Duty Death: Legal Rights When a First Responder Is Killed Battling a Fire If you are reading this, someone you love did not come back from a fire call. Lt. Isai Huerta was 29 years old, a nine-year veteran of Odessa Fire Rescue, and by every account from his chief and his mayor, a man who loved the job and served it with joy. He died at Medical Center Hospital on a Sunday evening in June 2026 after conditions deteriorated rapidly at a residential trailer fire on South Westcliff Road. Up to seven other firefighters were hospitalized. The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating how it happened, and the answer to that question will determine what legal rights your family has. Here is the first thing you need to hear, and it is not what most people assume: the fact that he was a firefighter does not mean no one can be held accountable. Texas has a doctrine called the firefighter’s rule, and it does bar some claims — but it has exceptions that are powerful, and one of them can bypass it entirely. If a defective product caused or worsened that fire, the firefighter’s rule does…

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Jul 18, 2026

Jessica Rodriguez and Her Two Children Killed in an Odessa Apartment Shooting by an Armed Minor — Wrongful Death & Negligent-Security Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the Adults Who Failed to Secure the Firearm, the Guardians Who Failed to Supervise, and the Property Owner and Management Company Behind Inadequate Access Controls, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage and Access-Control Logs Before the 30-Day Overwrite, the Suspect’s Digital Communications and School Records of Prior Threats Before They Are Purged, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With the Firearm-Accessibility Standard as Negligence Per Se, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa, Ector County, Texas: When a Minor Accesses a Firearm and Three Lives End If you are reading this page, someone you love is gone — or someone you love is the one who survived and is now carrying a weight no teenager should ever have to carry. You may be sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa at two in the morning, trying to understand how a fifteen-year-old boy walked into an apartment on a Tuesday evening and left a mother and two children dead. You may be the surviving fifteen-year-old’s aunt, uncle, grandparent, family friend — the person now trying to hold together what is left. You may be a parent in Ector County who read what happened and is now terrified it could happen to your family. We are going to tell you everything we know about what the law does when a minor accesses a firearm and kills. Not the criminal case — the police and the Ector County District Attorney are handling that. The civil case. The one that asks a different question: which adults and which institutions failed this family, and what does the law allow the surviving family to do about it? That…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Pedestrian Hit-and-Run on Permian Basin Roads: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, We Pursue the At-Fault Drivers and the Fleeing Driver Who Violated the Duty to Stop and Render Aid, We Pull the Crash-Scene Data, Surveillance Footage and Cell Records Before the Overwrite Cycle, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with Punitive Exposure for Conscious Indifference, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Pedestrian Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

An Odessa Man Is Dead After Two Vehicles Struck Him and One Driver Drove Away — What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this, someone you love was killed on a road in Ector County. Two vehicles hit him. One of the drivers stopped. The other drove away and left him there. You are standing in the worst moment your family has ever faced, and the questions are already piling on top of the grief: Who was the person who fled? Will they ever be found? Is the driver who stayed at fault, or just the one who did not run? What are you supposed to do now, while the scene is still fresh and the evidence is still alive? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Texas wrongful death cases, and we are writing this for one person: you, the family member who just lost someone on an Ector County road and is trying to figure out what comes next. Everything in this page is here to protect you, arm you, and tell you the truth about what you are walking into — because the insurance…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Stop-Sign Crash at Treva and Greenlee: Two Dead in Odessa, Ector County, Texas When an At-Fault Driver Ran a Stop Sign and T-Boned the Acura TL Carrying Adrian Andres Arzate Alvidrez and Alfredo Acosta Bejarano — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, to These Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and Investigate Honda Motor Company’s Acura Crashworthiness, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Crash Claims, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data and Cell-Phone Records Before the Overwrite, We Preserve Hospital Toxicology Specimens Before They Are Destroyed, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With the Stowers Duty That Forces Insurers to Settle Within Limits When Liability Is Clear, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Two People Are Dead After a Driver Ran a Stop Sign at Treva and Greenlee in Odessa — Here Is What the Law Says and What Your Family Needs to Do Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was killed at the intersection of Treva Avenue and Greenlee Avenue on the evening of April 8, 2026, we want you to hear this first: your loved ones did nothing wrong. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already confirmed the cause. An Acura TL was traveling westbound on Treva Avenue, where it had the right-of-way, when a Mitsubishi Outlander traveling southbound on Greenlee Avenue disregarded a stop sign and crashed into it. The Acura’s driver and passenger — two people who were simply crossing an intersection they had every legal right to cross — were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Mitsubishi walked away with minor injuries and was taken to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. That asymmetry — two people dead, the at-fault driver treated and released — tells you something about the physics of this crash that matters to the case. We will get to that. But right now, the thing you…

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Jul 18, 2026

Hydrogen Sulfide Wrongful Death in Odessa, Texas: Jacob Dean Was Overcome by H2S Checking a Pump, Then Natalee Dean Was Overcome Searching for Him — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue Oil and Gas Operators and Service Contractors Like Aghorn Operating and Kodiak Roustabout for Uncontrolled Sour-Gas Emissions and Falsified Well Tests, Clean Air Act Negligent Endangerment Convictions and OSHA Willful Violations Admissible as Gross Negligence in Civil Wrongful-Death Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the H2S Monitoring Data, Gas Detection Records and Alarm Calibration Logs Before the Retention Cycle Erases Them, Texas Gross Negligence That Defeats the Workers’ Compensation Exclusive-Remedy Bar and Opens Exemplary Damages, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hydrogen Sulfide Killed Two People at an Odessa Oil Facility — What Their Families Need to Know The Permian Basin runs on sour gas. The crude that comes up from the wells around Odessa carries hydrogen sulfide — a poison so fast and so quiet that a man can walk out to check a pump and never walk back. And when his wife comes looking for him, she does not walk back either. That is not a freak accident. That is the exact pattern hydrogen sulfide has followed in the oilfield for decades, and the companies that run these facilities know it down to their bones. Two people died that way in Odessa on October 26, 2019. An oilfield worker went to check a pump at a company facility and was overcome by H2S. His wife came looking for him when he stopped answering his phone. She was overcome too. Both of them died at the facility. Now, more than five years later, two West Texas companies and a company executive have been criminally convicted for it. The operator and a service company were ordered to pay a combined $1.4 million in criminal fines. The executive was sentenced to five…

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Jul 18, 2026

Dram Shop Liability & Catastrophic Drunk-Driving Injury: A Drunk Driver Served 19 Drinks at an Odessa Golf-Course Bar, So Intoxicated He Could Not Distinguish Red From Green, Loses Control of His Pickup on Andrews Highway and Leaves Isaac Sanchez, a 32-Year-Old Motorcyclist, Quadriplegic — Attorney911 Pursues the Establishments and Their Insurers Under Texas Dram Shop Law in Ector County, Where the Safe-Harbor Defense Collapses Without TABC-Certified Servers, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Pull the Point-of-Sale Drink Records, TABC Certification Histories and Bar Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Destroys Them, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Catastrophic Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Jury Awards $262.5 Million — When a Bar Chooses Profit Over Safety, Texas Law Holds Both the Drunk Driver and the Bar That Overserved Him Accountable If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt by a drunk driver in Odessa — or anywhere in the Permian Basin — you already know the feeling. The anger. The confusion. The questions that come at 2 a.m. when the hospital room is quiet and the bills are starting to pile up and nobody from the insurance company has called you back yet. You know the drunk driver is responsible. What you may not know is that under Texas law, the bar that kept pouring drinks into a person who could barely stand can be held responsible too — for a significant share of what your family has lost. An Ector County jury just told this community exactly that. On June 3, 2021, a 32-year-old Odessa man named Isaac Sanchez was stopped on his Harley-Davidson at the red light where Andrews Highway meets Yukon Road, waiting his turn like every other person on that road. Behind him was a drunk driver who had been served approximately 19 alcoholic drinks over…

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Jul 18, 2026

Birth-Injury & Cerebral Palsy from a Delayed C-Section at Odessa Regional Medical Center in Ector County: Baby Adalynn Born with Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy After Hours of Ignored Severe Pain, a Missed C-Section, Uterine Rupture, and a Destroyed Fetal Heart Tracing — Attorney911 Pursues the Hospital Systems and Corporate Parents Behind the Standard-of-Care Breach, 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 Birth-Injury Cases, We Move to Preserve the Chart, the Imaging and the EHR Audit Trails Before They Are Amended, Brain-Injury ($5M+ Recovered) to Lifelong-Care Catastrophic Claims, Texas Medical-Malpractice Law and the Spoliation Doctrine in Plain Language, the Records-Preservation Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Hospital in Odessa Fails a Laboring Mother: Birth Injury, HIE, and the Law That Follows If you are reading this at two in the morning, sitting next to a crib your child may never climb out of, we need you to hear something first: what happened to your baby was not a complication. It was a cascade of preventable failures, and the fact that you are searching for answers means you already know that. You may have been told that uterine rupture is a “known risk” of prior C-sections. That is a true sentence used to cover up a false story. The truth is that the standard of care exists precisely to prevent that risk from becoming a catastrophe — and when a hospital in Odessa or Midland ignores that standard for hours, the brain damage that follows is not an act of God. It is a medical mistake measured in minutes, and the law gives your family a path to hold the people responsible for it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas, including birth injury and medical malpractice claims. We are writing this page as…

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