Sandy Hook families sue Alex Jones for defamation

By Daniel Terrill

Alex Jones standing in front of a bunch of maps. (Photo: InfoWars via Youtube)
Parents of two children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre filed suit against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has maintained that the horrific event was faked and possibly staged by the government.
The lawsuit, filed in a Texas state court, alleges Jones accused the plaintiffs of being actors rather than victims’ parents on his website InfoWars, Bloomberg magazine reported.
Both cases were filed Monday. Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, parents of Noah Pozner, filed one lawsuit and Neil Heslin, father of Jesse Lewis, filed the other. They’re seeking at least $1 million in damages.
In the shooting, a 19-year-old gunman entered Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012, and murdered 20 first-graders and six educators before taking his own life.
Jones’ baseless claims about the shooting have had real-world consequences. Last year, a Florida woman was convicted of harassing the parent of a Sandy Hook victim. She said she informed her belief that Sandy Hook was fake by reports by Jones’ InfoWars and other similar publications.
Earlier this month, Jones was named in another defamation suit by a Massachusetts man he misidentified as the gunman

Source: Guns.com