A lawsuit settlement allows the most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland, Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to own shooter Nikolas Cruz's name, and Cruz may not give any interviews without his permission, The Associated Press reports. Under his 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. 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," said Borges' attorney, Alex Arreaza.
A promising soccer player before the shooting, Borges has undergone more than a dozen surgeries and still lives in pain. He received donations, a $1.25 million settlement from the Broward County school district and an undisclosed settlement from the FBI for their failures in preventing the shooting. Arreaza said it is difficult to say whether Borges has received enough money to cover his future medical expenses. Several other families also sued Cruz, and a mini-trial had been scheduled for next month to assess damages against him. That trial has been canceled. Florida already prohibits inmates from keeping any proceeds related to their crimes, including any writings or art work they might produce in prison. When she sentenced Cruz, Judge Elizabeth Scherer ordered that any money placed in his prison commissary account be seized to pay restitution to the victims and their families and all court and investigation costs, totalling millions of dollars.