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The parents of two kids killed in the Sandy Hook massacre are suing conspiracy monger Alex Jones over his claims that the shooting was a hoax, according to new reports.
The families of 6-year-old victims Jesse Lewis and Noah Pozner — two of 26 kids and teachers slain when gunman Adam Lanza opened fire on Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 — both filed suits in Texas on Monday against Jones and his media company InfoWars, each seeking in excess of $1 million, according to the Hartford Courant.
Both suits charge that Jones defamed the parents by calling them “crisis actors” — and that his conspiracy theories over the 2012 shooting led to viewers sending them death threats, the paper reports.
“Even after these folks had to experience this trauma, for the next five years they were tormented by Alex Jones with vicious lies about them,” Mark Bankston, the lawyer for both cases, told the Huffington Post. “And these lies were meant to convince his audience that the Sandy Hook parents are frauds and have perpetrated a sinister lie on the American people.”
Bankston is also representing a Massachusetts man who is suing Jones for falsely identifying him as the gunman in the Parkland school shooting.
Pozner’s parents’ suit focuses on an April 2017 show, where Jones claimed an interview they did with CNN following the tragedy was bogus, according to the Courant.
“So here are these holier than thou people, when we question CNN, who is supposedly at the site of Sandy Hook, and they got in one shot leaves blowing, and the flowers that are around it, and you see the leaves blowing, and they go [gestures]. They glitch,” Jones said, per a transcript of the show in the lawsuit. “They’re recycling a green-screen behind them.”
Lewis’ parents also named InfoWars reporter Owen Shroyer in their suit, for his “heartless and vile” comment that the boy’s father lied in an interview by saying he “held my son with a bullet hole through his head.”
Shroyer said it couldn’t have happened because the victims were identified through photographs — but the suit says the bodies were ultimately turned over to the families.
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