Navy Veteran William ‘Gene’ Ray Dead at 66 Degrees in a Pasco County Assisted Living Walk-In Freezer: Attorney911 Pursues The Waverly and Its Corporate Parent for the 1-to-48 Staffing Ratio That Left a Known Wandering Dementia Resident Trapped Four Hours in a Freezer Requiring an Interior Release Latch Under Building and Life Safety Codes, We Pull the Surveillance Footage, Staffing Sheets, Freezer Hardware Logs and AHCA Critical Report Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Elder Neglect, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Florida’s Wrongful-Death Act and Assisted Living Resident-Rights Protections, the Statute of Limitations Is Running, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Pasco County Nursing Home Freezer Death: When One Person Watches 48 Residents and a Navy Veteran Freezes to Death You are reading this because someone you love is in a care facility in Florida, and you just learned what happened to an 83-year-old Navy veteran in Pasco County — a man with dementia who walked out of his room at half past midnight, unsupervised, through an unlocked kitchen, into a walk-in freezer, and died there over four hours while a single staff member covered an entire building of 48 residents. His family found out he was missing not because the facility called them — but because they checked a home camera themselves and saw his empty room. By the time staff searched, he was barely conscious. His core body temperature was 66 degrees. He died at the hospital. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases in Florida, and what happened at The Waverly Assisted Living and Memory Care in Pasco County is not a freak accident. It is the foreseeable, preventable product of a facility that accepted a memory care resident, charged for specialized supervision, and then left 48 vulnerable people in…