Orinda Wrongful Death

Orinda Halloween Party Mass Shooting & Airbnb Premises Liability Lawsuit — Attorney911 Pursues the Short-Term Rental Platform and the Property Owner Behind the Unpermitted 100+ Person ‘Mansion Party’ That Violated the 13-Person Occupancy Cap, Airbnb’s Own Party and Weapons Ban, and the 15 Prior Complaints That Proved the Nuisance House Was a Foreseeable Disaster, Five Wrongful Deaths (Omar Taylor, Oshiana Tompkins, Tiyon Farley, Ramon Hill Jr, Javin County) and Multiple Gunshot Wounds, 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 Move to Preserve the Owner’s Security Camera Footage, the Social Media Promoter Posts, and the Orinda Code Enforcement Records Before They Are Deleted, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule and Wrongful-Death Act Allow Recovery Even When the Shooter Is Unknown, 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 Orinda Airbnb Mass Shooting: Holding Hosts, Platforms, and Short-Term Rental Operators Accountable Under California Law You got the call, or you heard about it on the news, or you were there. The details of how the horror landed on your family do not really matter anymore — what matters is that someone you love is gone, and every night since then you have been carrying a weight no one should have to carry. Maybe you are reading this at 2 a.m., because that is when the grief is loudest, and you need to know if someone has to answer for this. The short answer is yes. In California, the people who put that house on the short-term rental market, the platform that profited from it, the woman who lied about who was coming, and the people who promoted the “mansion party” that drew more than 100 people into a home licensed for 13 all share legal responsibility for what happened inside that house that night. We cannot bring back what you lost. We can make the people and companies whose choices made the loss possible stand in a courtroom and answer for it, in dollars that reflect the magnitude…

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Shooting Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms Accountable for Negligent Security After Five Lives Lost in Mass Shooting at Unauthorized Party, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Targets Airbnb’s Failure to Enforce Its Own Safety Rules, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Wrongful Death Cases, We Preserve Social Media Promotions and Surveillance Footage Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule Allow Recovery Even When the Shooter Remains Unknown, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Are the Call Families Make When a Short-Term Rental Turns Into a Mass-Casualty Scene The phone call comes in the middle of the night, or in the days that follow. Someone’s child did not come home from a Halloween party. Someone’s brother is in a hospital bed, shot multiple times, and the doctor is saying words like “collateral damage” and “long road.” Someone’s parent, who was supposed to be the responsible one that night, cannot stop replaying the moment they said yes to the trip to Orinda. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We built this firm on cases exactly like the one you’re living through right now: catastrophic injury, preventable death, a corporate defendant trying to point at everyone but themselves, and a grieving family that needs someone to walk into the room and take the weight. Ralph Manginello has spent more than 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, fighting exactly these battles for families across Texas and California. Before law school he was a journalist, so he knows how to dig out the story a corporation would rather bury. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, the same rooms where the…

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Airbnb Accountable for Failing to Enforce No-Party Policies in High-Risk Short-Term Rentals, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Against Corporate Platforms That Profit From Unsafe Venues, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Black and Brown Lives Lost, We Preserve Social Media Ads, Booking Records, and Security Footage Before They Vanish, California’s Wrongful Death Act Lets Families Recover for the Five Young Victims — Omar Taylor, Oshiana Thompkins, Tiyon Farley, Javlin County, and Raymon Hill Jr. — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Halloween Night That Should Never Have Happened You are reading this because someone you love went to a house in Orinda, California, on the night of October 31, 2019, and did not come home. The five young people killed that night had plans the next morning. They had families waiting for them. They had decades of life ahead of them — schooling, careers, children of their own, ordinary Tuesday nights. That is what was taken. We represent the families of people killed by someone else’s choices. We know what the weeks after a loss like this feel like: the phone calls that never stop, the funeral costs that arrive before the insurance paperwork, the grief that makes every decision harder, and the slow realization that the people responsible for the conditions that made this possible are not going to volunteer to help. We also know that this case is about more than one terrible night — it is about a property, a host, an online platform, and a series of decisions that put five young lives in the same room with people who had every intention of doing them harm. The rest of this page walks you through the…

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Airbnb and the Short-Term Rental Industry Accountable for Negligent Security, Unscreened Party Bookings, and the Foreseeable Violence That Killed Raymon Hill Jr. and Four Others, 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 Social Media Promotions, Police Body-Cam Footage, and Home Security Recordings Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Know Exactly Who You Are Right Now You are reading this because someone you love went to a party in Orinda on Halloween night, 2019, and did not come home. You are the parent of a nineteen-year-old who was just starting life, or the family of a twenty-three-year-old who left behind a three-year-old daughter who will grow up asking what her daddy was like. Five people died that night at a house advertised on social media as a “mansion party” — a house rented through Airbnb, in a quiet residential neighborhood in the hills above Camino Pablo and Brookwood Road, on a winding, narrow street with limited patrol coverage. We are not going to dress this up. We are going to tell you what the law in California actually says you can do about it, who you can hold responsible, what evidence exists and how fast it is being lost, how the insurance industry will try to take your case from you, and what the case is worth in real numbers. We are Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña. We run a trial firm out of Houston that takes cases across the country, and we have spent decades standing in…

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Party Shooting: Wrongful Death & Negligent Security Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Airbnb and the Short-Term Rental Host Accountable for Five Fatalities (Oshiana Tompkins, Tiyon Farley, Omar Taylor, Ramon Hill Jr., Javin County) and Multiple Gunshot Injuries After Repeated Noise Complaints and Violations of Orinda’s 13-Person Occupancy Ordinance, 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 Mass-Casualty Cases, We Preserve Social Media Flyers, 911 Call Logs, and Neighbor Complaints Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury and Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Orinda Airbnb Halloween Shooting: Why the Property Owner, the Event Host, and Airbnb May All Be Accountable for Five Deaths We know why you are reading this. Someone you love went to a Halloween party in Orinda on the night of October 31, 2019, and did not come home. The phone call you received, or the news you woke up to, told you that shots had been fired at a house party on Lucille Way, in the hills above the small Contra Costa County community, and that five people between the ages of 19 and 29 had been killed. We know what that did to your family. We know the questions that have been circling since: How did this happen? Who let it happen? Who answers for it? We are the trial team at Attorney911 — Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña, working out of Houston but taking this kind of case anywhere the law lets us help. We do not write to you to sound tough, or to promise what we cannot deliver. We write to give you the truth, in plain language, about the legal rights you still hold, the evidence that is at risk, and the path that…

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Shooting Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms Liable for Negligent Security After 5 Fatalities & 5 Gunshot Survivors at Lucille Way Mansion Party — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Mass-Casualty Events, We Preserve Social Media Promos, Surveillance Footage & Booking Logs Before They Vanish, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule Means Families Can Still Recover Even If Victims Were Armed, 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 Parent at the Kitchen Table in Orinda You are reading this at 1 a.m. because your phone rang the night of October 31, 2019, and the voice on the other end said your son was shot at a Halloween party in a house in your own neighborhood — a house you did not know was being rented out for a mansion party that was being advertised on social media. You drove to Lucille Way. You saw the yellow tape. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputies were still there. Some of the people you grew up with were carried out on stretchers. Five young people never came home. Five more were wounded. The rest of the night, and the weeks after, are a kind of blur that has not lifted. Now, years later, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s office has declined to file criminal charges against the five men that deputies arrested. The DA’s announcement reads, in part, that the office will “need more information” in order to file charges. A sheriff’s spokesman said, “We stand by our investigation.” That left your family with a feeling that the system you trusted had moved on, and the only thing left…