Sandy Hook families sue Alex Jones: report

Six families of victims killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut are reportedly suing Infowars owner Alex Jones.

ABC News reported that the six families and one FBI agent who responded to the shooting filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing Jones of defamation. 

This is not the first lawsuit against Jones by Sandy Hook families. Earlier this year, the parents of two children killed in the shooting accused Jones of spreading lies about the shooting and the victims that have resulted in death threats.

{mosads}At least two other lawsuits reportedly accuse Jones of defamation related to Sandy Hook.

Twenty children and six adults were killed in the shooting. Jones has suggested the shooting wasn’t real.

“I’ve watched a lot of soap operas, and I’ve seen actors before,” Jones said in 2016. “And I know when I’m watching a movie and when I’m watching something real.”

Jones defended himself against the earlier lawsuits in a YouTube video, saying that he believed the massacre happened and accusing the media of taking his comments out of context. He said that he believed the lawsuits would be thrown out.

He later defended his comments about Sandy Hook in an interview, saying that he was playing “devil’s advocate” by covering “every position” on the topic.

“I tend to believe that children probably did die there,” he said. “But then you look at all the other evidence on the other side. I can see how other people believe that nobody died there.”

– Updated at 12:25 p.m.