Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University was found guilty of negligence for failing to propmtly alert students that two people had been killed in a dorm, leading to the death of 30 others in the April 16, 2007 massacre, a jury found Wednesday according to a report by USA Today.
The parents of slain students Erin Peterson, 18, and Julia Pryde, 23, sued the univeristy for wrongful death, claiming that the school's decision to wait more than two hours to send a campuswide alert about the initial shooting left students and staff vulnerable for the attack, the article says. The initial alert also did not indicate that a gunman might still be at large.