An attorney for one of the victims of the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Tuesday said he intends to bring suit against multiple defendants accused of negligence and other failures.

Wilton Manors-based personal injury attorney Alex. F. Arreaza put the Broward Sheriff's Office and school board on notice, but said his list of defendants would be much longer.

“We're looking at everybody now,” Arreaza said. “This is only the beginning.”

Arreaza represents 15-year-old Anthony Borges, who was shot five times in his torso and both legs during the rampage at the school in Parkland.

A former Stoneman Douglas student, Nikolas Cruz, 19, confessed to the shooting that killed 17 people and wounded 14 others, including Borges. Cruz faces 17 counts of premeditated murder, but could also be a defendant in civil suits.

Now, Arreaza wants to hold others accountable for Borges' life-threatening injuries, subsequent disability and mounting medical bills. He said Borges belongs to a working-class family, with the primary breadwinner employed as a maintenance worker at a condominium association.

Borges is unable to walk and care for himself. Once doctors discharge him from Broward General Medical Center, his family will need to relocate to housing that can accommodate his disability, physical therapy and other rehabilitation.

“It's going to be very expensive — the kind of thing that can bankrupt the family,” Arreaza said. ”I'm sure it's going to go over $1 million before it's over.”

Among those in the litigation crosshairs are James and Kimberly Snead, a couple who let Cruz move into their home last Thanksgiving weeks after his adoptive mother, Lynda Cruz, died Nov. 1.

“They may have exposure,” Arreaza said. “They're not getting out of it.”

But the Snead family lawyer denied any wrongdoing on their part.

“The saying goes, 'No good deed goes unpunished. These folks were like good Samaritans. And now people are looking at them to pay some kind of a price, and I don't think it's fair,” their lawyer, Fort Lauderdale criminal defense attorney James Lewis, said. “They are victims, too, to some extent — not to the extent of the people who have been killed or injured — but their lives have been turned upside down, too.”

The looming lawsuit on Borges' behalf is not the only litigation threat hanging over the Sneads.

The Berman Law Group in Boca Raton served the family with court documents that indicate its intention to sue multiple parties, including the Sheriff's Office, school board, Federal Bureau of Investigation and several public agencies that over several years responded to calls about Cruz's threatening behavior and alleged unstable mental health. The Berman firm is representing Kyle Laman, who was injured in the shooting.

Florida law requires plaintiffs to give government agencies six months' notice before bringing suit. These pre-suit letters notify potential defendants of the impending litigation, giving them an opportunity to address the dispute outside of court. Arreaza and the Berman litigators have put at least six agencies on notice, as well as serving court documents to private citizens who they'll likely pull into the litigation. The Berman attorneys also sent notice to the FBI under the Federal Claims Tort Act, which permits private individuals to sue the U.S. government.

Here's a list of potential defendants, according to Arreaza and lawyers from the Berman Group:

• Broward Sheriff's Office, which had not received Arreaza's notice by press time Tuesday, according to BSO spokeswoman Keyla Concepción.
• Broward County Public Schools, which did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
• James and Kimberly Snead, who Lewis said have been unfairly targeted. “I don't think there's any legal basis for it,” Lewis said. “These people did nothing more than to provide a home for a 19-year-old who had lost his mother. They didn't know about all his past … that's come forward now. I don't think they have any legal responsibility, or would be considered to be negligent for the purposes of a civil lawsuit.”
• Henderson Behavioral Health, which school staff called after Cruz cut himself following a fight.
• Florida Department of Children and Families, which investigated Cruz's violent behavior.
• Sunrise Tactical Supply, the store where Cruz in November purchased the AR-15 rifle used in the shooting. The Coral Springs, Florida store has since shut its doors and disconnected its telephone number.
• Cruz.

It was unclear at press time whether Dick's Sporting Goods, where Cruz legally purchased a handgun not used in the shooting, is litigation target.

“This whole situation was like the perfect storm,” Arreaza said. “Everything just broke down on so many levels.”