Zach Cruz left Florida after the 2018 massacre. Now the men who gave him a home in Virginia are accused of stealing his inheritance.
Zach Cruz, center, is the brother of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, top left. Zach was taken in by Richard Moore, top right, and Mike Donovan, bottom right, who are now charged with stealing his inheritance money. .courtroom, its benches were full. Here were the families, whose sons and daughters and spouses had been slaughtered. Here were the attorneys, who had asked survivors to testify about the day their limbs, their entire lives had been irrevocably maimed.
His brother confessed to gunning down 17 people in Parkland. But he’s the only family Zach Cruz has left. But police and court records allege that Moore and Donovan, who were already being prosecuted by state and federal agencies for their, stole the money Zach inherited from his late mother’s estate — more than $400,000 — to pay taxes, bills and car payments on their Ferrari.
On the day of the verdict in Florida, the jury delivered a decisive outcome for Nikolas Cruz: Instead of being executed, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Zach’s arm was wrapped around Moore and Donovan. He was smiling. Two words were embroidered on his shirt: “Go away.” Zach spent 10 days in jail, much of it on suicide watch, according to his public defender at the time. He was then placed on probation and sent back to the home of a former neighbor he had been living with since his mother’s death. By May, the neighbor had kicked him out and called police on him for driving a car without a license.
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Zach expressed a desire for a quiet life out of the spotlight. But Donovan and Moore continued to seek it.In 2021, they began promoting an online streaming platform called “TV Unleashed.” Its centerpiece was “Dog Unleashed,” a new reality show about Dog the Bounty Hunter, Duane Chapman, who had started spending time in Virginia after his wife died in 2019.
“I never truly understood what it truly meant to hate the sin and love the sinner until now,” Moore wrote. Two checks were mailed out the next day, Aug. 7, 2019, police records show. One was for $207.17. The other was for $426,553.30. has been ordered to pay millions from lawsuits and class-action settlements and has endured what their lawyers described as “crippling, multimillion dollar expenses that were not anticipated.”
“The law places financial exploitation in the same category of concerns as physical abuse or neglect,” said Stephen Strosnider, an attorney for the agency who declined to comment on the specifics of Zach’s case. “Zachary Cruz is not the only person that Donovan and Moore have purportedly taken advantage of," Chapman said in a statement. “My family has fallen prey in various ways to their scams as well.”
In September 2021, Zach was called to testify about the matter in front of a federal grand jury. An excerpt of his testimony included in police records shows he told the prosecutor Moore had given him a lot of money over the years. But when asked if he ever gave permission for Moore and Donovan to use his money to pay the IRS, Zach answered no.
Prosecutors took the issue to the judge, arguing that under Florida law, witnesses are required to answer relevant questions during depositions. The judge agreed, issuing an order commanding Moore and Zach to meet with the attorneys again and this time, “answer all questions asked of them." Approached by The Washington Post reporter who’d interviewed him extensively in 2019, he said he did not know that she had been trying to reach him for months through Donovan and Moore.
He said he sometimes went weeks without sleeping. He broke his skateboards on purpose. One night in 2020, he broke a window and didn’t know why. He ended up hospitalized for his mental health, he said. He now had a multiple face tattoos, including a green ribbon beneath his left eye, a symbol of mental health awareness. Tattooed across his knuckles were the words ‘LOST SOUL.’
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