Since the murderer was a broke nobody, they instead went after someone who defamed the dead. The cultural leanings of Alex Jones are easy to attack and he had deep pockets.

The premise is basically Jones defamed the living by lying about the livings factual representation of the dead. But that is only a deceptive legal spin of what actually happen, that Jones defamed the dead. But you can't win judgements for defaming the dead, so you just say you've defamed the living by saying they're lying about the dead.

It gives me incredible joy to know Jones has mitigated this effect with the same legal deception used against him.