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A Texas jury has ordered InfoWars’ Alex Jones to pay $4.11 million in defamation damages to the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre after he made repeated claims that the 2012 shooting was a hoax.
Jones spread falsehoods that the massacre was a government operation to push gun control legislation and that the families of the 27 victims were complicit, according to the New York Times. On December 14, 2012, 20 first-grade students and six educators were murdered when lone gunman, Adam Lanza, entered Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut with a semi-automatic rifle after killing his mother at home.
On Thursday, the ten Texas jurors awarded compensatory damages to Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin who brought forth the defamation lawsuit against Jones . They are the parents of Jesse Lewis, 6, who was killed in the massacre.
While being cross-examined, Jones explained that it was irresponsible of him to declare that the shooting was a hoax and admitted to the jury that the massacre was “100 percent real,” according to Bloomberg .
Lewis and Neslin had requested $150 million in compensatory damages for “years of torment and threats” after Alex Jones claimed they were part of the government’s false-flag operation.
“The way that you have impacted so many lives, there has to be some accountability for that,” Lewis said to Jones while on the stand.
During the trial, prosecutors aired a June 2017 clip of NBC’s “Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly” where Neil Heslin protested Jones’ denial of the shooting and spoke to Megyn Kelly about the last moments he had with his son Jesse.
“I held my son with a bullet hole through his head,” Heslin told Kelly.After NBC aired the episode, InfoWars hosts Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer accused Heslin of lying during a broadcast, […]
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