In a wrongful death suit brought forth by the parents of two victims of the 2007 shooting on Virginia Tech’s campus, the University has been found guilty.

As the parents of Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde stated for an NBC press release, “If Virginia Tech police and administrators warned the campus of two shootings in a dorm 2 and a half hours before Seung-Hui Cho ended his killing spree and killed himself,” they might be alive.

The attorney for the parents stated in this same press release he doesn’t believe Virginia Tech actually did all they could have. Jurors were asked to decide whether the University’s police could have foreseen a danger to the entire campus after two isolated dorm shootings occurred earlier that day.

After only three and a half hours of juror deliberation, each of the families was awarded $4 million, a number that, according to NBC, the state immediately filed to reduce.

Suzanne Grimes, parent of a shooting victim, told CNN, “Vindication has finally come. This is about them being accountable.”

CNN continued to report a written statement from Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski .

“We are disappointed with today’s decision and stand by our long-held position that the administration and law enforcement at Virginia Tech did their absolute best with the information available on April 16, 2007. We do not believe that evidence presented at trial relative to the murders in West Ambler Johnston created an increased danger to the campus that day. We will discuss this matter with the attorney general, carefully review the case and explore all of the options available,” Owczarski said.

The shooting on Virginia Tech’s campus occurred April 16, 2007. Killing 32 and wounding 25, it stands as the deadliest shooting by a single gunman in our nation’s history.