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COM. v. PETERSON

Record No. 121717.

749 S.E.2d 307 (2013)

COMMONWEALTH of Virginia v. Grafton William PETERSON, Administrator of the Estate of Erin Nicole Peterson, Deceased, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 31, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley G. Russell, Jr. , Deputy Attorney General ( Kenneth T. Cuceinelli, II , Attorney General; Patricia L. West , Chief Deputy Attorney General; Peter R. Messitt , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Mike F. Melis , Assistant Attorney General; E. Duncan Getchell, Jr. , Solicitor General; William G. Broaddus ; Jeremy S. Byrum ; McGuire-Woods , on briefs), for appellant.

Robert T. Hall ( L. Steven Emmert , Virginia Beach; Sykes, Bourdon, Ahern & Levy; Hall and Sethi, on briefs), for appellees.

Present: KINSER, C.J., LEMONS, GOODWYN, MILLETTE, and POWELL, JJ., and RUSSELL and LACY, S.JJ.

OPINION BY Justice CLEO E. POWELL.

This appeal arises out of wrongful death suits filed against the Commonwealth by the administrators (hereinafter "Administrators") of the estates of Erin Nicole Peterson and Julia Kathleen Pryde, two murder victims of the tragic 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (hereinafter "Virginia Tech").1 In this case, we hold that even if there was a special relationship between...

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