A jury has found Virginia Tech was negligent in the May 2007 shooting rampage . Since the massacre , the school has beefed up its communications , using methods that include e-mail notices ; telephone , cellular phone and text messages ; classroom electronic message signs ; posters ; university website notices ; campus loudspeakers and desktop alerts . Seung - Hui Cho fatally shot three people before killing himself . The families of two victims sued for wrongful death . The jury awarded the two families $ 4 million each .
A jury has found Virginia Tech was negligent in the May 2007 shooting rampage . Seung - Hui Cho fatally shot three people before killing himself . The families of two victims sued for wrongful death . The jury awarded the two families $ 4 million each .