Families of victims of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School have filed a defamation lawsuit against Infowars radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who has repeatedly claimed the massacre was a hoax.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Bridgeport Superior Court in Connecticut by the families of six victims and an FBI agent who responded to the shooting at the Newtown, Conn., school on Dec. 14, 2012.

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