--- description: A Florida woman was arrested after making death threats to a parent whose child was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting title: Sandy Hook Truther Arrested After Threatening Shooting Victim's Parent image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Florida](/tag/florida/) ## Florida Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Sandy Hook Truther Arrested After Making Death Threats Against Shooting Victim's Parent by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 7, 2016 7:14 PM CUT by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 7, 2016 7:14 PM CUT A Florida woman who believes the [Sandy Hook School shooting](http://time.com/4366676/orlando-shooting-sandy-hook-florida-families/ "undefined") was a hoax was arrested after making death threats to a parent whose child was killed in the 2012 shooting. Lucy Richards, 57, was allegedly motivated to threaten the parent because she thought the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., never happened, according to a [statement](https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr/tampa-area-resident-indicted-threatening-sandy-hook-parent "undefined") from the U.S. Department of Justice. Richards made a series of death threats to the parent, who now lives in South Florida, the statement said. Twenty children and six adults died in the Sandy Hook School shooting in Dec. 2012. Richards faces charges of four counts of transmitting threats. Each count carries a maximum of five years’ imprisonment. She will appear in court on Dec. 19. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4594150/florida-sandy-hook-death-threat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4594150/florida-sandy-hook-death-threat/"},"headline":"Sandy Hook Truther Arrested After Making Death Threats Against Shooting Victim's Parent","datePublished":"2016-12-07T19:14:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:11:38.385Z","description":"She believed the shooting was a hoax","url":"https://time.com/4594150/florida-sandy-hook-death-threat/","keywords":["Florida","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/florida/","name":"Florida"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4594150/florida-sandy-hook-death-threat/","name":"Sandy Hook Truther Arrested After Making Death Threats Against Shooting Victim's Parent"}}]}] ```