The parents of two first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook slaughter are suing “Infowars” host Alex Jones.
The parents of two first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook school slaughter are suing “Infowars” host Alex Jones over his repeated claim that the mass shooting was a hoax.
The right-wing conspiracy theorist was targeted in a pair of lawsuits filed Monday in Travis County, Texas, accusing Jones of declaring the killing of 20 students and six staffers was “a giant hoax.”
The suits were filed by Neil Heslin, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was among the dead, and the parents of Noah Pozner — the youngest victim of the bloodbath inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
The parents are seeking more than $1 million damages in each lawsuit.
“In the five years following the tragedy, (Jones) has repeatedly and unequivocally called the Sandy Hook shooting a hoax,” read the suit filed by Heslin.
The 18-page Heslin filing mentioned Infowars’ “long history of harassing the Sandy Hook parents with defamatory lies.”
The program hosted by Jones was responsible for “a series of false, hurtful and dangerous assertions” about the parents of the slain kids, the suit added.
The suit filed by parent Leonard Pozer and ex-wife Veronique De La Rosa mentioned Lucy Richards, a Florida woman who left threatening voicemails and send ominous emails to Pozner.
“Look behind you it is death,” read one of the messages.
Prosecutors in her case said Richards was a reader of the Infowars website, and she was banned from visiting Jones’ online operation as part of her sentence.
Both suits names Jones and Infowars LLC, while the Heslin suit added reporter Owen Shroyer — who claimed in a June 2017 broadcast that Heslin lied about seeing a bullet hole in his dead son’s head.
“Shroyer’s report was manifestly false,” the lawsuit charged. “In addition, a minimal amount of research would have caused any competent journalist not to publish the defamatory accusation.”
There was no immediate response from Jones for a response to the lawsuits.
The suits also quote an assortment of Jones’ comments dismissing the murders as fiction, including a July 2015 rant where he compared the killing of 26 innocent victims with a trip to Disney World.
“When you take your kids to see the Haunted House and ghosts are flying around, it’s not real, folks,” he said.
“It’s staged. I mean, a magician grabs a rabbit out of his hat… I don’t know what the trick is here. I’ve got a good suspicion.”
Back in March 2014, he made a similar remark — again without offering any evidence to back up his allegations.
“I’ve looked at it and undoubtedly there’s a cover up,” the lawsuit quoted him as saying. “There’s actors, there’re manipulators.
“They’ve been caught lying, and they were pre-planning before it and rolled out with it.”
