Having issue with enemy death animation not playing

in my game I am trying to make my enemies play a death animation when they are killed, but when I kill them it doesn't play the animation. This is the event I have set up. Im not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Add a trigger once to the event. Also you may have other animations that overrule the death animation, this is a common issue people come across, usually something like an idle animation is trying to play at the same time. You should make sure other animations cannot be true, such as adding a condition to an idle animation event 'death animation is not playing' or something similar.

lionz thank you very much! adding the "death is not playing condition fixed it!!