FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz's name, and Cruz cannot give any interviews without his permission, under a settlement reached in a lawsuit. Under his recent settlement with Anthony Borges , Cruz must also turn over any money he might receive as a beneficiary of a relative's life insurance policy, participate in any scientific studies of mass shooters and donate his body to science after his death.
Sheriff Scott Israel holds the hand of Anthony Borges, then 15, on Feb. 18, 2018. Borges, who was severely wounded in the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz's name under a settlement reached in a lawsuit, his attorney said Thursday.
The agreement means that Cruz, 25, cannot benefit from or cooperate with any movies, TV shows, books or other media productions without Borges' permission. Cruz is serving consecutive life sentences at an undisclosed prison for each of the 17 murders and 17 attempted murders he committed inside a three-story classroom building on Feb. 14, 2018.
“We just wanted to shut him down so we never have to hear about him again,” Borges' attorney, Alex Arreaza, said Thursday. Borges, now 21, was shot five times in the back and legs and collapsed in the middle of the third-floor hallway. Video shows that Cruz pointed his rifle at Borges as he lay on the floor, but unlike mos.
