RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An attorney for the parents of two Virginia Tech students killed in a 2007 massacre argues that the state’s request to throw out a jury’s negligence verdict is “fatally flawed.”

The attorney’s court filing said the jury’s finding should stand. It’s in response to the state’s motion to set aside the March 14 verdict, which concluded Virginia Tech officials waited too long to alert the Blacksburg campus of the first shootings in a rampage that ended with 33 dead, including the gunman.