Father: Jones’ Sandy Hook lies forced move from Conn.
Robbie Parker, whose 6year-old daughter Emilie was killed, testified Thursday at conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ defamation trial in Connecticut about becoming the face and target for conspiracy theorists who believe the lie that the 2012 shooting that killed 20 first graders and six educators was a hoax.
The harassment began, he said, after Mr. Jones featured on his Infowars show a video of Mr. Parker smiling just before a news conference the day after the shooting. Mr. Jones and his guests would repeatedly point to the video as proof that Mr. Parker and others were “crisis actors.”
Mr. Parker said that has led to a decade of abuse and forced his family to move about 3,000 miles to Washington state.
“It would come in these waves,” Mr. Parker said of the harassment. “It was almost like I knew when Alex Jones said something, because we would get a huge wave of stuff.”
The trial is scheduled to resume Tuesday with more testimony by victims’ relatives.
Victim’s family wants appeal in ‘Serial’ case
The family of a young woman who was killed in 1999 will appeal a Baltimore judge’s recent order overturning the conviction of Adnan Syed, the man imprisoned for decades for Hae Min Lee’s death, according to an attorney for the family.
Attorney Steve Kelly said Lee’s family is not challenging Mr. Syed’s release, but instead wants the judge to hold another hearing that the family can attend in-person and address the court — Lee’s brother Young Lee appeared via video conference on short notice during the previous hearing.
Mr. Syed, whose case was examined in the popular true-crime podcast “Serial,” was released earlier this month after prosecutors told a judge they had uncovered doubts about the fairness of the investigation. Mr. Syed has always maintained that he never killed Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend.
Telescopes get clear photos of asteroid slam
The world now has stunning new photos of this week’s asteroid strike, the first planetary defense test of its kind.
NASA on Thursday released pictures of the dramatic event taken by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes.
A few hours later, SpaceX joined NASA in announcing that they’re studying the feasibility of sending a private mission to Hubble, potentially led by a billionaire, to raise the aging telescope’s orbit and extend its life.
Telescopes on all seven continents watched as NASA’s Dart spacecraft slammed Monday into the harmless space rock, 7 million miles from Earth, in hopes of altering its orbit.
Scientists won’t know the precise change until November; the demo results are expected to instill confidence in using the technique if a killer asteroid heads our way one day.
“This is an unprecedented view of an unprecedented event,” Johns Hopkins University planetary astronomer and mission leader Andy Rivkin said in a statement.