What Happened at the Vilbig Road Rental, and What Comes Next
If your loved one was killed or hurt in the shooting at the Vilbig Road short-term rental in West Dallas on May 26, 2026, you do not need us to explain how the last week has felt. You have already lived through the police at the door, the hours of silence from the property manager, the news trucks outside the house, the funeral director who wanted decisions before you had them, and the first text from an insurance number you did not ask for. The civil justice system cannot bring your person back. What it can do is hold the right people accountable, force the truth out of the records they would rather you never saw, and put real money in front of the people your family still has to support. We work for that outcome. The page below explains, in plain English, what Texas law actually gives you, who can be held responsible for what happened inside that rental, what evidence disappears if no one moves to save it this week, and what the insurance companies and their lawyers will try in the days and weeks ahead.
The arrest of an 18-year-old suspect in early June confirmed what survivors and witnesses already knew: this was not random. Witnesses identified the shooter by name, and the suspect admitted the act, calling one of the victims by name. Dallas Police charged the shooter with capital murder. That criminal case will move through the Dallas County District Attorney’s office and, depending on how it is resolved, may run for many months. The criminal case answers the question who pulled the trigger. The civil case answers the question who put that trigger in reach of your family — and that question is the one that produces real recovery.
Our firm is Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Ralph Manginello has practiced Texas personal-injury and wrongful-death law for more than 27 years, including federal court. He is a Texas Trial Lawyers Association member, a Houston Bar Association member, and a former journalist who learned early how to chase a paper trail. Lupe Peña is a former insurance-defense attorney who spent years inside the rooms where carriers and their software priced claims like yours down to the dollar before they ever saw a courtroom. He now uses that knowledge for injured Texans. He is fully bilingual and conducts full client consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. Together we handle catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases in Texas. We do not get paid unless we win your case. Your consultation is free. This page is the information version of what we would tell you across our kitchen table.
Who Can Be Held Responsible in Texas for a Shooting at a Short-Term Rental
The shooter faces the criminal system. The civil system asks a different question: who else profited from, controlled, or failed to protect the place where this happened? Texas law gives surviving families more than one path to recovery, and each defendant comes with its own insurance tower. Identifying the right defendants, in the right order, is half the value of the case.
The Property Owner and the On-Site Host
Whoever owns or operates the Vilbig Road property as a short-term rental owes Texas invitees — paying guests — a duty of reasonable care to protect them from foreseeable criminal harm. That duty is not invented by the lawsuit; it is the common-law premises-liability rule Texas has applied for decades. The Supreme Court of Texas sharpened the foreseeability test in Timberwalk Apartments, Inc. v. Cain, 972 S.W.2d 749 (Tex. 1998), and the Timberwalk factors are what every Texas court will use to decide whether your family’s harm was reasonably foreseeable to the owner before it happened. Those factors are:
- Proximity of prior crimes to the rental
- Recency of those prior crimes
- Frequency of prior criminal incidents at or near the property
- Similarity between the prior criminal acts and the harm your family suffered
- Publicity of those prior incidents — whether they were known or knowable to the owner, manager, or platform
A short-term rental that has hosted parties, that has had prior police calls for service, that sits in a corridor with a documented history of violent incidents, and that did not hire security, did not install functioning exterior cameras, did not control the guest list, and did not enforce its own advertised “no party” or “no unauthorized guests” rules has every Timberwalk factor weighing against it. Discovery in these cases almost always uncovers prior 911 calls the owner quietly ignored, online reviews from earlier guests that complained about gate and parking chaos, and reservation data showing the property was rented for a high-attendance event over a holiday weekend without additional screening.
The Short-Term Rental Platform
If the property was rented through a platform such as Airbnb or Vrbo, the platform can also be a defendant — though the platform’s exposure runs on a different legal theory than the property owner. In 2018, Congress passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), codified at 47 U.S.C. § 230(e)(5), which carved out federal sex-trafficking claims from the broad immunity platforms had enjoyed under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. That carve-out does not by itself create liability for a shooting. What it does is confirm the legal premise the law already operated on: a platform that knowingly benefits from a venture it knew, or should have known, was being used for unlawful purposes is answerable.
The platform’s civil exposure in a shooting case generally comes from one or more of three theories:
- Negligent security / negligent undertaking where the platform held itself out as a screening and safety intermediary
- Apparent agency where the guest reasonably believed they were dealing with the platform rather than the host
- Direct negligence in how the platform designed booking screening, identity verification, party-bans, and complaint handling
A platform that marketed the listing with copy about “verified guests,” “trusted hosts,” or “24/7 support” cannot disclaim the safety expectation it created. The platform’s own reservation records, identity-verification logs, party-risk-flag systems, prior complaint history, and trust-and-safety team communications are critical evidence — and they sit on a short retention cycle. That evidence has to be demanded in writing in the first week or the case weakens.
The Event Host or Organizer
If a person or group rented the property, advertised the party, charged cover, collected money at the door, or otherwise organized the gathering, they may also be a defendant. Their homeowner’s or renter’s insurance will almost certainly deny coverage, and their personal assets will be the only recovery — but the case still belongs in the lawsuit because the organizer often controls the social-media evidence (event pages, group chats, ticket-sale records) that proves the size of the gathering and the foreseeability of violence.
The Shooter
The shooter is named as a defendant in nearly every Texas civil case arising from a shooting. In practice, an 18-year-old shooter rarely has collectible assets. But naming him is not symbolic — it preserves claims, prevents statute-of-limitations arguments, and gives your lawyers the ability to take his post-arrest statements, his phone, his social-media history, and his communications into the case. We name him on day one.
Texas Law on Wrongful Death and Survival Claims
Texas recognizes two parallel civil claims after a fatal shooting, and they belong to different plaintiffs.
The Wrongful-Death Claim — Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code Chapter 71
Texas’s wrongful-death statute, Chapter 71 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, allows certain surviving family members to recover for their own losses caused by the death. The damages belong to the beneficiaries, not the estate. The eligible beneficiaries, in descending order under § 71.004, are:
- The surviving spouse, children, and parents of the deceased
- If none of those exist, the person bringing the suit may also be eligible as an adoptive or dependent family member
Wrongful-death damages in Texas are uncapped as to economic losses (lost wages, lost benefits, lost household services, medical and funeral expenses). They are subject to the state’s cap on non-economic damages in some contexts, but the cap structure under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 41 does not cap economic damages, and punitive damages are subject to a separate cap that is waived when the defendant is found guilty of a felony involving serious bodily injury or death — which is exactly the category this case sits in. We will move to invoke the felony cap-breaker at the earliest opportunity.
The Survival Action
Texas also recognizes a survival action under § 71.021 of the CPRC, which belongs to the estate of the deceased. The survival claim recovers the conscious pain and suffering, mental anguish, and economic losses the deceased experienced between the moment of injury and the moment of death, plus pre-death medical bills and funeral expenses. A survival action matters because it captures damages the wrongful-death statute does not — particularly the terror and physical suffering in the minutes or hours between being shot and dying.
The Texas Deadline You Cannot Afford to Miss
Texas wrongful-death and survival claims carry a two-year statute of limitations, running from the date of death under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003. The clock on a May 26, 2026 death is May 26, 2028. The discovery rule has narrow application in Texas and is not a general escape hatch. The two-year deadline is the load-bearing fact on this entire page. Every step below — evidence preservation, defendant identification, insurance notice, deposition scheduling — exists because that deadline is real and unforgiving.
What Texas Recognizes as Compensable Harm After a Shooting
Texas juries are not asked to value a death at an arbitrary number. They are asked to add up specific categories of loss, each proved by evidence.
Economic Damages
Economic damages are the provable money losses. For a person killed in a shooting they include:
- Lost earning capacity — not just the paycheck that stopped, but the wages, benefits, and retirement contributions that will never accrue. Built by a forensic economist using Texas and federal labor data.
- Lost household services — childcare, cooking, repairs, driving, household management. Priced using federal time-use data and Texas market wage rates. For a non-wage-earning parent, this category alone can be enormous.
- Medical and funeral expenses — the bills incurred between injury and death, and the cost of laying the person to rest.
- Lost inheritance — what the deceased would have accumulated and left to the family.
Non-Economic Damages
Non-economic damages are the human losses no receipt can capture: pain and suffering, mental anguish, loss of companionship and society, loss of parental guidance for the children, loss of consortium for the spouse. Texas does not cap these the way some other states do in every case, and the punitive-damages cap under Chapter 41 is waived when the conduct supporting the claim also supports a felony conviction for serious bodily injury or death — which we will move to establish.
Punitive Damages
Punitive damages are not compensation — they are punishment. Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 41.003 allows punitive damages when the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with malice, gross negligence, or fraud. A short-term rental operator that took the booking, took the money, advertised a “safe” experience, and ignored a pattern of red flags at the property is precisely the kind of conduct punitive damages exist to address.
The Evidence Clock: What Exists, Who Holds It, How Fast It Disappears
After a shooting at a short-term rental, the proof of what the property knew and when is scattered across at least four record systems. Each one is on its own timer. The most important step in this entire case happens in the first week — sending preservation letters to the property owner, the property manager, the booking platform, and the host, ordering every relevant record frozen before routine purges erase it. Attorney911 sends those letters the same day a family calls. Our wrongful-death practice has run this playbook on Texas families for more than two decades.
Here is what has to be preserved, who holds it, and how fast it disappears.
Surveillance Footage from the Property
Doorbell cameras, exterior CCTV, and any interior cameras the owner or platform may have required are usually recorded on a rolling loop. The loop commonly overwrites itself in 30 days, sometimes faster. Once overwritten, the video of who entered, what time, how many people, and whether anyone challenged access at the gate is simply gone. A preservation demand is the only thing that converts an automatic erasure into spoliation the court can sanction.
Reservation, Guest, and Folio Records
The booking platform and the host hold the reservation history, guest count, identity-verification logs, payment records, and the property-management-system data showing exactly who booked, when, and under what name. This is the system that proves whether the booking exceeded the platform’s own occupancy rules, whether the host clicked through a party-risk flag, and whether prior guests at this property had complained about security or noise. Platform retention cycles vary, but they are not infinite, and the metadata (timestamps, IP addresses, device fingerprints) often ages out faster than the booking record itself.
Housekeeping, Maintenance, and Vendor Logs
Housekeeping logs, maintenance tickets, landscaping or pool-service records, and any vendor-access logs are the documents that show whether the property was being run as a “loved family home” or as a high-turnover party venue. Gaps in the housekeeping log near the date of the shooting can prove the property was being run for an event rather than a residential stay.
Police Records, 911 Audio, and Body Camera
The Dallas Police Department holds the call-for-service history for the Vilbig Road address and the broader West Dallas beat. The 911 audio from the night of the shooting, the officer body-worn-camera footage from the scene, the incident report, and the criminal case file against the shooter are all discoverable in the civil case. Public-records requests to the City of Dallas and to Dallas Police are filed immediately. The prior-call history at this address is the most direct evidence of the Timberwalk foreseeability factors — proximity, recency, frequency, similarity, and publicity.
Social Media
Event pages, group chats, livestreams, Instagram and Snapchat posts, and TikTok videos from the night of the shooting are the single best evidence of how many people were there and what was advertised. Social-media evidence is also the fastest-dying evidence in the case: users delete, platforms purge, and screenshots are inadmissible unless the original is preserved. A forensic social-media investigator preserves the original posts with hash values so they can be authenticated in court.
Cell-Phone Records and Texts
The shooter’s phone, the phones of the deceased, and the phones of witnesses hold the chat history, location data, and call logs that tie the night together. Phone preservation requires a litigation hold letter plus, where necessary, a court order.
Firearm and Ammunition Trace Records
If the firearm is recovered, the ATF and the Dallas Police Crime Lab can trace its sale history and ownership chain. The trace can prove whether the firearm was acquired lawfully, how recently, and from whom. That evidence is part of the civil discovery record.
The Insurance-Adjuster Playbook: Three Plays We See in Every Texas Wrongful-Death Case
Insurance companies and their lawyers are not neutral. They have a playbook. Knowing the playbook is half the fight. Lupe Peña spent years on the other side of this table — inside the rooms where carriers and their software priced claims like yours down to the dollar before the case was ever filed. He now uses that knowledge for injured Texans. Below are the three plays you will see in the first 60 days of a Dallas short-term-rental shooting case, and the counter for each.
Play 1: The “Just Tell Us What Happened” Recorded Statement
An adjuster from the property owner’s liability carrier — or the platform’s carrier — will call within days. The caller is warm, expresses sympathy, says they want to “make this right,” and asks whether you would sit down and “just tell us what happened” so they can “process the claim.” The call is being recorded. The questions are engineered to lock you into a version of events before you have had a chance to review the discovery, before the medical examiner’s report is final, and before you have spoken to a lawyer. The counter: do not give a recorded statement. Refer the caller to your attorney. There is no deadline by which you must speak to an insurer, and anything you say on that recording can be quoted against you later. Politeness costs nothing; a recorded statement can cost you six figures.
Play 2: The Quick Check With a Release Attached
A check may arrive in the mail within two to three weeks, often for an amount that feels generous in the fog of grief. Buried in the envelope, in small type, is a full release of every claim against every potential defendant — not just the property owner but the platform, the host, the event organizer, and unknown others. Signing it without understanding the long-tail value of a wrongful-death claim is one of the most expensive mistakes a Texas family can make. The counter: no check is signed, no release is signed, until a Texas wrongful-death attorney has reviewed the full document. We have seen families settle for $50,000 when the realistic case value was in the seven figures, because the grief made the first offer feel like mercy.
Play 3: Surveillance and Social-Media Mining
After the funeral, while the family is grieving, the insurance carrier’s investigation team is already mining the deceased’s and the family’s social media. They are looking for any post, any photo, any comment that can be used to suggest the deceased was in a different frame of mind, that someone else was to blame, or that the family is not as close as the wrongful-death claim alleges. The investigation may include in-person surveillance of the family home. The counter: live your life, but do not delete anything. Adjusting privacy settings is fine; deleting posts can be used against you as “spoliation.” Save everything. Forward anything concerning to your lawyer immediately.
A fourth play is worth naming even though it is not an adjuster trick — it is a calendar trick. The statute of limitations on a Texas wrongful-death claim runs two years from the date of death. Insurers count on families taking a year to grieve, another six months to find a lawyer, and another three months to retain one. By the time the family calls, the evidence has cycled and the carrier has had the better part of two years to build its defense. The counter: call us this week, not next year. We send the preservation letters the day you retain us. Our contact page is open 24 hours a day.
Damages: How the Number Gets Built in a Texas Shooting Case
We never quote a settlement number before we have seen the medical examiner’s report, the deceased’s earning record, the platform’s reservation data, and the property’s prior-call history. What we can tell you is how the number is built, and the categories the law recognizes.
For a working-age adult killed in a Texas shooting, a defensible damages model typically includes:
- Past medical expenses between injury and death
- Funeral and burial expenses
- Lost wages from the date of injury through the date of death
- Lost future earning capacity, calculated by a forensic economist using Texas and federal labor data and projected to the deceased’s worklife expectancy
- Lost fringe benefits — health insurance, retirement contributions, paid leave, and employer-side payroll taxes that would have continued
- Lost household services, calculated using federal time-use data and Texas market wage rates
- Mental anguish damages to the surviving spouse, children, and parents under Texas wrongful-death law
- Loss of companionship and society damages to the spouse and children
- Loss of parental guidance damages where minor children are involved
- Survival damages for the conscious pain and suffering of the deceased between injury and death
- Punitive damages, where the facts support malice, gross negligence, or fraud
For a non-working parent or a young person early in a career, the household-services and future-earning-capacity categories often carry the case. For a high-earner, the lost earnings and benefits do. For a minor who lost a parent, the loss-of-parental-guidance category alone can be substantial. Texas juries, given the right proof, return verdicts in the seven- and eight-figure range for these cases. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes — but the categories above are real, and the arithmetic is real.
The Dallas, Texas Geography of This Case
The shooting occurred on Vilbig Road in the West Dallas corridor. West Dallas has seen rapid gentrification but retains pockets of historically high crime rates in the area, and the Vilbig Road corridor sits near major thoroughfares including Singleton Boulevard and close to the Trinity River. This corridor has been the subject of city-wide debate over the regulation of “party houses” and the enforcement of Dallas’s short-term-rental ordinances. The City of Dallas has specific short-term-rental ordinances codified at Chapter 42A of the Dallas Development Code (with recent zoning amendments) requiring registration of short-term rental properties and prohibiting nuisance properties. Violations of those ordinances can be used as evidence of negligence per se — that the property was being operated in violation of the city’s own rules, or that the owner had been warned and failed to cure. We will pull the City of Dallas registration status of the Vilbig Road property, the code-enforcement history, and any prior nuisance citations as part of the discovery in this case.
For families, the geography matters in other ways. The civil case will likely be filed in Dallas County, in one of the state district courts at the George L. Allen Sr. Courts Building on South Lamar Street in downtown Dallas. The criminal case against the shooter is being prosecuted by the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. Our firm works with Texas counsel where admission pro hac vice is required and coordinates local investigators, preservation-letter service, and expert retention in the Dallas area.
What Attorney911 Does, Day One, When a Family Calls
We send preservation letters within hours — to the property owner, the on-site property manager, the short-term rental platform, the event host if identifiable, and the Dallas Police Department’s records unit. We serve a Texas Public Information Act request on the City of Dallas for code-enforcement history and 911 call-for-service history at the Vilbig Road address. We retain a forensic economist to lock in the lost-earnings and lost-household-services model before the wage records age out. We retain a premises-security expert to evaluate the property against Texas’s Timberwalk foreseeability factors and the relevant industry standards. We retain a life-care planner if a surviving victim is facing long-term recovery. We coordinate with the criminal-case prosecutor’s office to ensure the civil discovery does not interfere with the criminal prosecution. We do not charge a fee unless we win. The consultation is free. The 24/7 number is 1-888-ATTY-911.
How Texas Handles Comparative Fault
Texas follows a modified comparative negligence rule with a 51% bar — Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 33.001. A plaintiff whose own fault is 51% or more recovers nothing. A plaintiff whose own fault is 50% or less recovers, but the recovery is reduced by the plaintiff’s percentage of fault. In a short-term-rental shooting case, the defense will almost certainly argue comparative fault: that the deceased “should not have been at the party,” that the deceased “knew there were guns,” or that the deceased “chose to associate with violent people.” Texas courts take these arguments seriously, but they are rebuttable with discovery. The shooter is a co-defendant whose fault will be apportioned separately. We prepare for the comparative-fault fight from intake.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I have to file a wrongful-death lawsuit in Texas after a Dallas short-term-rental shooting?
Texas imposes a two-year statute of limitations on wrongful-death claims under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.003. The clock runs from the date of death. For a death on May 26, 2026, the deadline is May 26, 2028. There is no general “discovery rule” exception in Texas. Calling a lawyer now is the single most important action a family can take.
Can I sue the short-term rental platform (Airbnb, Vrbo) for the shooting in Dallas?
Yes, in many cases. Platforms are not automatically immune. Under 47 U.S.C. § 230(e)(5), the broad Section 230 immunity does not shield platforms from civil claims arising from sex trafficking, and Texas common law gives families negligence and apparent-agency theories against platforms that hold themselves out as safety intermediaries. We will analyze the platform’s marketing, identity-verification systems, and complaint-handling history to determine whether the platform meets the legal standard.
Who can bring a wrongful-death claim under Texas law?
Under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 71.004, the surviving spouse, children, and parents of the deceased may bring a wrongful-death claim. If the deceased had no spouse, children, or parents, other dependents may be eligible. We evaluate standing on a case-by-case basis.
What is the difference between a wrongful-death claim and a survival action in Texas?
A wrongful-death claim belongs to the surviving family members and recovers their losses — lost support, lost companionship, lost parental guidance. A survival action belongs to the estate of the deceased and recovers the conscious pain and suffering, mental anguish, and economic losses the deceased experienced between injury and death. Both claims can be brought in the same lawsuit.
How does Texas handle punitive damages in a shooting case?
Texas allows punitive damages under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 41.003 when the plaintiff proves by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant acted with malice, gross negligence, or fraud. The statutory cap on punitive damages under Chapter 41 is waived when the defendant is found guilty of a felony involving serious bodily injury or death. In a capital-murder case like this one, the cap-breaker is squarely available.
What evidence disappears fastest after a short-term-rental shooting?
Surveillance footage from doorbell and exterior cameras is the fastest-dying record — commonly overwritten in 30 days. Social media posts from attendees are the next fastest, with users routinely deleting their accounts. Reservation and platform metadata often ages out faster than the booking record itself. Preservation letters must go out within days, not weeks.
What if the deceased was at the party voluntarily — does comparative fault bar the claim?
Texas’s modified comparative negligence rule bars recovery only if the deceased’s own fault is 51% or more. Attending a social gathering voluntarily is not, by itself, comparative fault that rises to that level. The defense will try to argue it. The response is discovery — what did the property know, what did the platform know, what warnings existed, and what security was missing.
How much is a Texas wrongful-death case worth after a short-term-rental shooting?
There is no average. The value depends on the deceased’s age, income, family situation, the strength of the Timberwalk foreseeability case, the defendant’s insurance coverage, and the availability of punitive damages. Texas juries have returned verdicts in the seven- and eight-figure range in shooting cases. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. We evaluate each case individually after discovery.
Does the criminal case against the shooter affect the civil case?
Yes, in several ways. The criminal case generates discovery — police reports, witness statements, forensic evidence — that the civil case can leverage through subpoenas. A criminal conviction can also invoke Texas’s punitive-damages cap-breaker. We coordinate closely with the Dallas County District Attorney’s office to ensure the civil discovery supports, rather than disrupts, the criminal prosecution.
What if the deceased had no income — does the case still have value?
Yes. Texas wrongful-death damages include lost household services, calculated by a forensic economist using federal time-use data and Texas market wage rates. A stay-at-home parent who earned nothing on paper can carry an enormous household-services damages model. Non-economic losses — mental anguish, loss of companionship, loss of parental guidance — are also recoverable.
How does Attorney911 get paid?
We work on contingency. The standard contingency fee is 33.33% before trial and 40% if the case goes to trial. You do not pay a fee unless we win your case. The consultation is free.
Who at Attorney911 will handle my family’s case?
Ralph Manginello, the firm’s managing partner, brings more than 27 years of Texas trial practice to catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, including federal court. He is a Texas Trial Lawyers Association member and a former journalist who learned how to chase a paper trail. Lupe Peña is a former insurance-defense attorney who spent years inside the rooms where carriers priced claims like yours down to the dollar before trial. He now uses that knowledge for injured Texans. He is fully bilingual and conducts full consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. Learn more about Ralph and about Lupe.
What should I do right now if my family is affected?
Call us at 1-888-ATTY-911. Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance adjuster. Do not sign any check or release. Do not delete any social media. Do not wait. The two-year Texas clock is already running. Our preservation letters go out the day you retain us.
What if my loved one survived but is badly injured?
The same legal framework applies. Texas personal-injury law gives the survivor a direct claim for past and future medical expenses, lost wages, lost earning capacity, pain and suffering, mental anguish, and — in cases of gross negligence — punitive damages. Our brain-injury practice and wrongful-death practice cover both ends of this case. We retain life-care planners and forensic economists to build the lifetime arithmetic.
Where is Attorney911’s office, and do I have to come to Houston?
Our primary office is at 1177 West Loop South, Suite 1600, Houston, Texas 77027. We also have offices in Austin and a client-meeting location in Beaumont. For Dallas County cases we work with local investigators and, where admission pro hac vice is required, local Texas counsel. Many of our intake conversations happen by phone or video. Our 24/7 line is 1-888-ATTY-911. We also have a YouTube guide on what to do after a catastrophic injury and a guide on car-accident settlements that explain the same evidence and insurance dynamics in related contexts.
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We take the case on contingency. We do not bill you by the hour. We do not send you a monthly statement. We advance the costs of investigation, expert retention, deposition transcripts, and filing fees, and we recover those costs out of any recovery we obtain. The standard contingency fee is 33.33% before trial and 40% if the case proceeds to trial. We do not get paid unless we win your case. The consultation is free. The line is answered 24 hours a day, every day. Hablamos Español.
If you lost a family member in the Vilbig Road shooting, or if a family member survived and is recovering from gunshot wounds, the next 30 days will determine whether this case can be fully investigated. The video will cycle. The metadata will age. The platform’s reservation data will move into archive. The prior-call history at the address will become harder to retrieve. Every day you wait is a day the defense team is building its case against you. Call 1-888-ATTY-911 now. A senior member of our team will speak with you tonight.
“A property owner who rents out a home for short-term stays owes the guests who pay to stay there a duty of reasonable care to protect them from foreseeable criminal harm. That duty runs to the family of every guest who is killed when the owner knew, or should have known, that the property was being used for the kind of event at which the harm occurred.”
— Texas Supreme Court, Timberwalk Apartments, Inc. v. Cain, 972 S.W.2d 749 (Tex. 1998) (paraphrase of the foreseeability doctrine the Court announced — see full opinion for exact language).
Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Texas Bar No. 24007597 (Ralph Manginello); Texas Bar No. 24084332 (Lupe Peña). Our practice areas include wrongful death, brain injuries, car accidents, 18-wheeler accidents, motorcycle accidents, workplace accidents, workers’ compensation, refinery accidents, offshore injuries, construction accidents, toxic tort claims, and insurance claims. Free 24/7 consultation. No fee unless we win. Hablamos Español. Call 1-888-ATTY-911. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.