ORLANDO, Fla. — The family of Miya Marcano is grieving the loss of the heart of their family. They're also planning what comes next.

Speaking at a news conference Sunday, an attorney for the family said they were planning a foundation in Marcano's honor and exploring legal avenues with the goal of ensuring that other people don't go through what she did.

A body was found Saturday near the Tymber Skan on the Lake Condominiums in Orlando. Orange County Sheriff John Mina says it's believed the body is that of the 19-year-old Valencia College student.

"I can't even put into words how we're feeling right now as a family. I feel defeated. I feel like I failed my cousin and I don't know how we're going to get through this," cousin Caili Sue said on Saturday.

Marcano worked and lived at the Arden Villas apartments near UCF. She was last seen on Friday, Sept. 24. Investigators believe 27-year-old Armando Caballero, a maintenance worker who had made unwanted advances toward Marcano, entered her apartment with a master key. Caballero was found dead from apparent suicide at his own apartment complex a few days later.

Attorney Daryl Washington said the family had trusted Arden Villas as one of the best complexes in the UCF area, but he says since Marcano's disappearance the complex has not reached out to the family to express their condolences, nor offered any assistance or answered any of the family's questions.

"There is simply no way that this young man should have had access, and I'm calling him young man but he is a predator, to Miya's apartment," Washington said.

While the family has not yet filed a lawsuit against Arden Villas, Washington says the apartment complex is negligent in some way and they are looking at every legal remedy available. He also says the family is not alone. 

"We've had the opportunity to talk to young girls who are college students, young girls who are tenants at the Arden Villas apartments," Washington said, "And people are living in fear because what happened to Miya could easily happen to one of them."

Arden Villas, for its part, circulated a letter to the media during the search for Marcano, saying it had stepped up security and was checking guests who entered the complex at the gate. Spectrum News' Asher Wildman went to the complex on Sept. 30 and found no one manning the security station, nor checking guests at the gate.

Repeated attempts to get a statement from Arden Villas since have not been returned. 

A petition is being circulated by tenants, demanding changes to increase safety at the complex.

The family says making tenants feel safe is an end goal for them. 

While they don't yet know what they plan to do with the foundation in Miya Marcano's name, the attorney says they want laws in place to better ensure safety at apartment complexes.

"This was a preventable death, and this is what makes it very difficult for the family," Washington said.