Lawyers for relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims asked a Connecticut judge Friday to order Alex Jones's arre...
Lawyers for relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims asked a Connecticut judge Friday to order Alex Jones's arrest after he failed to turn up for deposition in his defamation lawsuit for a second time.
The InfoWars host being sued for defamation for repeatedly calling the massacre a hoax.
Jones missed both days of deposition Wednesday and Thursday in Austin citing a health problem, including vertigo and eventually revealing that it was a sinus infection on Friday.
After the 48-year-old failed to show up to court on Wednesday on the advice of one pf his doctors, Connecticut Judge Barbara Bellis instead ordered him to appear Thursday, noting he hadn't been hospitalized and appeared healthy enough in his in-person on his show on Tuesday.
Lawyers for relatives of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims asked a Connecticut judge Friday to order Alex Jones's arrest after he failed to turn up for deposition in his defamation lawsuit for a second time. Alex Jones of Infowars in 2018
Family members of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (pictured in 2013) are demanding his arrest
'The plaintiffs subjected themselves to hours and hours of painful questioning Mr. Jones’s lawyers — and Mr. Jones plays sick when it is his turn to tell the truth under oath,' Alinor Sterling, one of the families' lawyers, wrote in the motion.
A superior court judge in Connecticut made the ruling on Monday morning because Jones refused to turn over documents ordered by the courts to back up his defense, including financial records, according to the New York Times.
His conviction is a sweeping victory for the parents of eight people killed in the Newtown massacre.
On December 14, 2012 gunman Adam Lanza, 20, killed 20 first-graders and six teachers.
Lanza fatally shot his mother at their home before going to the school, and later killed himself as police arrived.
Juries in both states have not yet determined how much in damages Jones and the other defendants will have to pay the families.
Trials on the matter are scheduled in both states for next year.
Adam Lanza, who authorities said opened fire inside the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 first-graders, six educators and himself in December 2012
Pictured: firearms and ammunition found on or in close proximity to shooters body at Sandy Hook Elementary School following the December 14, 2012 shooting rampage
Connecticut State Police lead a line of children from the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday, December 14, 2012 after the shooting
People gather at the scene of a mass school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut
The conviction combines with three rulings in Texas last month that found Jones liable for damages in defamation lawsuits that stemmed from his statements about the Newtown massacre.
The shooting was portrayed on Jones' Infowars show as a 'giant hoax' and the families involved were all 'crisis actors' hired to perpetuate a government agenda to increase gun control.
Jones has since acknowledged the school shooting did occur.
The Sandy Hook families that sued Jones claim that he profited by spreading lives about the murders of their loved ones.
Jones has disputed their claims, but failed to turn over documents and financial records to support his stance after ordered todo so in court.
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