Jury Finds Va. Tech Negligent in '07 Shootings - NYTimes.com

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Jury Finds Va. Tech Negligent in '07 Shootings - NYTimes.com:

"It took jurors 3 ½ hours on Wednesday to find that university officials botched their response to the massacre on April 16, 2007, that left 33 people including the gunman dead. The jury determined that the Prydes and Petersons each deserved $4 million, but the award is likely to be sharply reduced. State law requires it to be capped at $100,000.
Still, the amount of the award mattered little to the two families.
"We were looking for truth for a long time," Harry Pryde said outside the courthouse that's less than 10 miles from Tech's Blacksburg campus. "We persevered and we got some truth today."
The parents' lawsuit argued that lives could have been spared if school officials had moved more quickly to alert the campus after the first two victims were shot in a dorm."

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