The lawyer who filed notice of a lawsuit on behalf of a student shot five times in the massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School says he expects to be filing legal papers for more families of victims soon.
Lawyer Alex Arreaza told USA TODAY that evidence increasingly reveals mistakes by the Broward County Sheriff's Office and school district leading up to the Feb. 14 rampage that killed 17 people. Nikolas Cruz, 19, a former student at the Parkland school, has admitted to the shootings, authorities say.
"They failed those kids completely, right from the beginning," Arreaza said. "This kid Cruz was a time bomb looking to explode. They had ample warning to file restraining orders" or take other actions.
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