The names of three people found shot outside a suburban Chicago home and the man believed to have killed them before fatally shooting himself have been released
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Second trial set to begin for Infowars’ Alex Jones in Sandy Hook hoax case
Last month, a Texas jury ordered Jones to pay $49.3 million to the parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, one of 26 students and teachers killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Jones’ lawyer has said an appeal is planned.
Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar
An Associated Press analysis found many U.S. states barely use “red flag” laws that allow police to take guns away from people threatening to kill, a trend blamed on lack of awareness of the laws and a reluctance to enforce them even as gun deaths soar.
School shooter fixated on guns, dreamed of killing, therapists’ letter says
Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood.
Uvalde school board fires police chief after school mass shooting
Chief Pete Arredondo is alleged to have made several critical mistakes during a May 24 massacre that left 19 students and 2 teachers dead.
Case against Alex Jones can proceed, Connecticut judge says
Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has falsely claimed that the nation’s deadliest school shooting — which killed 20 students and six educators — was a hoax.
Sandy Hook lawyer: Jan. 6 panel asked for Infowars’ Alex Jones’ texts
The Infowars host’s attorney had mistakenly sent him the last 2 years’ worth of texts from Jones’ cellphone.
Infowars’ Alex Jones concedes that Sandy Hook attack was ‘100% real’
Under a withering cross-examination, Jones acknowledges his history of raising conspiracy claims regarding other mass tragedies.
Sandy Hook dad says Infowars’ Alex Jones made his life a ‘living hell’
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, on trial in a civil case, claimed the 2012 attack that killed 20 first-graders and 6 staffers at the Connecticut school was a hoax or faked.
Frequent lockdowns may have contributed to Uvalde tragedy
Nearly 50 times between February and May, Robb Elementary School had gone into lockdown, not because of active shooter scares but of nearby, high-speed pursuits of migrants coming from the U.S.-Mexico border.