Leonard " Lenny " Pozner was the father of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim . He is the founder of the HONR Network , which supports the victims of mass casualty violence as well as the targets of online hate speech and harassment . On Friday , December 14 , 2012 , 20 year old Adam Lanza took an AR-15 assault rifle into Sandy Hook Elementary school and killed 20 children and 6 teachers . One of the children killed was Pozner 's six-year-old son Noah . Shortly afterward , conspiracy theorists used Facebook , YouTube , blogs and other social media platforms to claim the massacre was a hoax and a false flag operation and that the victims were actually crisis actors . Prominent among these conspiracy theorists was radio-show host Alex Jones , who repeatedly told his audience on his far-right InfoWars program to rise up and " find out the truth " , insisting that the shooting was staged by the federal government to destroy the Second Amendment and citizens ' right to bear arms . So whilst mourning the loss of their children , Pozner and the other victims ' families had to deal with accusations that their children were not dead , and that the tragedy was all a fraud designed to undermine Americans ' gun rights . They endured death threats and in-person , online and phone call harassment from people who took up the call from Jones and others . After Pozner succeeded in getting an Infowars video removed from YouTube , Jones showed his audience Pozner 's personal information and maps to addresses associated with his family . In an effort to protect themselves from the continuing harassment , Pozner and Noah 's mother Veronique De La Rosa Haller , and their two surviving children , moved from Connecticut . The harassment has continued however , as each time they move , conspiracy theorists who stalk the family publish their new address . The family has had to move several times since leaving Connecticut . They currently live in hiding in a high-security community hundreds of miles from where their six-year-old son Noah is buried
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Leonard Pozner