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Two Sandy Hook families file lawsuit against Alex Jones, Infowars
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Two Sandy Hook families file lawsuit against Alex Jones, Infowars

Families of two children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School have filed lawsuits in Texas against controversial radio talk show host Alex Jones for continually claiming the massacre never happened.

Neil Heslin, the father of Jesse Lewis, and Leonard Pozner and Veronique De La Rosa, whose son Noah Pozner died in the massacre, filed separate lawsuits late Monday in Travis County, Texas.

The lawsuits allege that Jones constantly calling the parents “crisis actors” and insisting the shooting was a false flag operation has defamed them and led to victims’ families receiving death threats.

The lawsuits were filed in Texas because Jones media company, Infowars, is based in Austin. Both lawsuits are seeking more than $1 million in damages from Jones, Infowars and a related company, Free Speech Systems LLC. Infowars reporter Owen Shroyer is also named in the Heslin lawsuit.

Jones has been a controversial figure and one of the leading voices in the Sandy Hook truther movement, a group that claims the Dec. 14, 2012 shooting never occurred.

Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people, including 20 first graders, inside the school that day using an AR-15 before killing himself with a handgun. He had killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in her bed before driving the short distance to the school.

Noah Pozner and Jesse Lewis were in separate classrooms. Pozner was in Lauren Rousseau’s classroom where 14 of the 15 children were killed as they tried to hide in the bathroom.

Lewis was in Victoria Soto’s classroom where five children died and several escaped when police believe Lanza’s gun jammed and he stopped firing briefly to reload it. Police believe Jesse Lewis told some of his classmates to run while Lanza reloaded.

Heslin’s lawsuit names Shroyer for making the “heartless and vile” claim that Heslin lied during an interview with NBC News’ Megyn Kelly about holding his dead son’s body. The June 2017 segment profiled Jones. Kelly was roundly criticized by the families for giving Jones a national platform.

Heslin said on that show through tears that he “held my son with a bullet hole through his head” before he was buried.

In an Infowars show a few days after the Kelly segment aired, Shroyer said Heslin could not have held his son because victims were identified through photographs, not in person.

But that claim is “manifestly false,” according to the lawsuit. The children’s bodies were eventually turned over to their parents for their funerals, the lawsuit said.

The second lawsuit by, Pozner and De La Rosa, who were married at the time of the shooting, focuses on an April 2017 broadcast on Infowars where Jones discussed an interview De La Rosa gave to CNN’s Anderson Cooper shortly after the tragedy near Edmunds Town Hall in Newtown.

Jones claimed the entire interview was fake because of the background screen during the interview.

“They’re recycling a green, green screen behind them,” Jones said, according to the lawsuit.

During another show in 2014, Jones said he had done his own research and concluded the shooting never happened.

“The whole thing is a giant hoax. How do you deal with a total hoax?” Jones said on his program, according to the lawsuit.

“It took me about a year, with Sandy Hook to come to grips that the whole thing was fake. I did deep research,” Jones said.

Both families are represented by Houston attorney Mark Bankston, who filed a previous lawsuit against Jones and Infowars for misidentifying the shooter in the recent Parkland school shooting.

“The lawsuits address specific accusations made by Mr. Jones and InfoWars in 2017 that our clients were participants in a sinister cover-up at Sandy Hook,” Bankston said Tuesday. “Those statements in 2017 were part of a long history of lies peddled by Jones. Our clients have been tormented for five years by Mr. Jones’ ghoulish accusations that they are actors who faked their children’s deaths as part of a fraud on the American people. Enough is enough.”

Neither Jones nor a representative of Infowars could be immediately reached for comment.

Good! This guy is a jerk.

[Greg!]

Good, hope they bankrupt him