


Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones blamed “globalists” after one of his writers was killed during a car burglary earlier this week.
Jamie White, a 36-year-old writer for Jones’ conspiracy network, Infowars, was fatally shot Monday in an Austin, Texas, parking lot, police said.
At around midnight, Austin Police Department officers located White “lying on the ground in the parking lot with apparent trauma to his body,” according to a city press release.
“The initial investigation shows that White was shot and killed in the parking lot of the apartment complex in which he lived,” the statement said. “The suspects then fled the scene. Detectives believe the suspects were possibly burglarizing White’s vehicle, when he interrupted them.”
The killing prompted Jones ― best known for the lies he spread about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting ― to spread conspiracy theories.
“To the globalists ... you murdered Jamie White,” Jones said on Infowars Monday. “You opened the door, you created the climate, you created the conditions on purpose. George Soros, you murdered Jamie White. Joe Biden, you murdered Jamie White.”
And in an interview with conservative YouTuber Benny Johnson on Tuesday, Jones speculated that the killing “could’ve been a hit” orchestrated by Ukraine.
“What are the chances in a town of over 2 million people that an Infowars lead reporter gets butchered?” Jones said on the program. Austin’s population is less than 1 million people.
White, who started working for Infowars around 2021, wrote stories praising President Donald Trump and attacking Democrats.
“EPIC Breaking Video!” reads the headline from one of White’s pieces published last week. “Trump Calls Out The Democrat Death Cult To Their Faces.”
White’s sister, Kelly Kneale, told The Independent she doesn’t believe there’s a larger conspiracy behind her brother’s killing.
“I don’t believe it was targeted,” she told the publication. “He was shot by a person or persons trying to break into his car for the second time.”
The Austin Police Department is asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspects in White’s killing.
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“Anyone with information should contact the Austin Police Department at 512-974-TIPS,” the department said in a statement.
On his program Monday, Jones said White was “an amazing person” and “a good man.”
“Everybody needs to start carrying guns,” Jones added.