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Marion McKeone: $1bn damages award and still Alex Jones taunts Sandy Hook families
The shock jock who claimed the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, questions whether the families will ever see any of the cash awarded by a Connecticut court. But even if he doesn’t end up paying, his InfoWars social media outlets where he spreads his lies are likely to be hobbled by the award
On March 25, 2019, Dr Jeremy Richman was found dead at his office in Newton, Connecticut. His death by hanging was ruled a suicide.
Richman, a neuroscientist, and his wife Hensel, a microbiologist who worked on the research and development of cancer drugs for children, had set up the Arielle Foundation in memory of their daughter.
Six years earlier, on December 14, 2012, six-year-old Arielle Richman was one of 20 children killed during a mass ...