Apr 3, 2022
Jury awards $45.2 million in punitive damages in Alex Jones Sandy Hook trial
U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay the parents of a 6-year-old boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre $45.2 million in punitive damages — on top of $4.1 million in compensatory damages already awarded — for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury decided on Friday. Neil Heslin and Scarlett