A lawyer representing 20 people killed or wounded in the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech notified the town of Blacksburg on Friday that lawsuits may be filed claiming negligence by the town and its employees.
 
Under state code, notices of possible lawsuits must be filed in Blacksburg -- the locality where the shootings took place -- within six months from April 16. Tuesday marks six months from the day Tech student Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 students and faculty members and wounded at least 17 others before killing himself.

Blacksburg town attorney Larry Spencer said he received the notices of claims from Peter Grenier, a  personal injury lawyer in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

The claims, Spencer said, don’t necessarily mean that lawsuits are imminent.

Grenier is representing the families of 12 people who were killed in the shootings and eight who were wounded.

The 12 killed who are represented in the notices include: Minal Hiralal Panchal, Julia Kathleen Pryde, Juan Ramon Ortiz-Ortiz, Nicole Regina White, Reema Joseph Samaha, Maxine Shelly Turner, Brian Roy Bluhm, Caitlin Millar Hammaren, Jeremy Michael Herbstritt, Matthew Gregory Gwaltney, Waleed Shaalan and Michael Steven Pohle Jr.
 
Those wounded who filed notices include: Hilary Strollo, Elilta Habtu, Justin Klein, Sean McQuade, Katelyn Carney, Garrett Evans, Emily Haas and Kevin Sterne.