![]() PREVIOUSLY, August 4: Alex Jones will have to pay at least $4.1 million in damages to the parents of one of the 6-year-old victims in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a jury decided on Thursday. WATCH: #AlexJones /9r6raJ9I9B- Cathy Russon August 5, 2022 ![]() That's added to the over $4 million in compensatory damages. You can see the judge reading the jury’s award below.īREAKING: Jury awards parents of #SandyHook victim Jesse Lewis $45.2 Million in punitive damages. Lewis’ parents, Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, sought $150 million in damages.ĭuring closing arguments on Friday, one of the parents’ attorney, Wesley Ball told the jury, “You are asked to deter Alex Jones from every doing this awfulness again to another family or another person, and to deter others who may want to step into his shoes.” Jones faces two other damages trials brought by parents of Sandy Hook victims.ĭuring testimony on Friday, an economist put the worth of Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, somewhere between $135 million and $270 million. He faced the parents earlier in the week, and has acknowledged that the Sandy Hook massacre was “100% real.” But Jones also was confronted by their attorney with some of Infowars recent attacks on the judge and his own characterization of the jury as “extremely blue collar folks.” Jones was not present in the courtroom when the verdict was read. It’s unclear whether the $45.2 figure will be upheld, as Texas law puts a cap on punitive damages. Jones already had been found liable in the parents’ defamation case, as they claimed that the Infowars host’s contention that Sandy Hook was a “false flag” operation subjected them to death threats and harassment. The jury’s award is added to the $4.1 million in compensatory damages the jury awarded to the parents of Jesse Lewis, who was among the 26 killed in the massacre, on Thursday. UPDATE, August 5: A Texas jury slapped Alex Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages for spreading the false claim that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting massacre was a hoax. “The money you donate does not go to these people,” he said. ![]() Jones also tried to raise money, with a split screen of the courtroom proceedings as the verdicts were being read. ![]() They just read out the damages, even though you don’t got the money.” He quoted Jones as saying, “This must be what hell’s like. The latest $965 million damages figure may be reduced, given the state’s limits on punitive damages, but it is an indication of the gravity that jurors placed on Jones’ actions and the impact it had on the mourning families.Īccording to NBC News’ Ben Collins, Jones was on his show at the time the verdicts were being read. The damages amount was far higher than that of a Texas jury’s determination in August, which slapped Jones with $45.2 million in punitive damages. The jury’s damages determination were only the latest against Jones, whose online show and media company regularly traffics in conspiracy theories yet has drawn a substantial audience.įamily members have described facing death threats and having the graves of their children defaced, triggered by Jones’ contention that the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting massacre, in which 26 people were murdered, including 20 children, was a “false flag” operation. Jones opted against appearing in court today. The dollar amounts - which closed in on $1 billion total - were different for each plaintiff and also include attorneys’ fees and other compensatory damages. Rupert Murdoch To Face Deposition In Dominion Voting Systems Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox NewsĢND UPDATE, October 12 PM: Parents of Sandy Hook shooting victims broke down in tears today as a jury in Waterbury, CT, awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for defamation, slander and emotional distress against Infowars founder Alex Jones, who has claimed the massacre was a hoax.
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