The jury voted to award damages to the plaintiffs in the lengthy defamation case.

For several years now, prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been locked in a legal battle with the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. Following the original incident, Jones used his platform to dismiss the shooting as a fabrication, accusing the families of being “crisis actors.” This led to the families becoming the target of regular harassment by Jones’ followers. In response, the families sued Jones on the grounds of defamation.

This week, a conclusion was finally reached in the families’ favor. The jury reached a verdict, ruling that Jones must pay damages to each of the 15 families involved in the case. As each family has been awarded multiple millions in damages, the total price tag that Jones is on the hook for is $965 million.

“I wish that after today, I can just be a daughter grieving my mother and stop worrying about the conspiracy theorists,” Erica Lafferty, daughter of the school’s late principal, said after the verdict, though she noted that the “hate, lies and conspiracy theories will follow both me and my family through the rest of our days.”

One of the plaintiffs, William Sherlach, said that the verdict “shows that the internet is not the wild, wild West, and that your actions have consequences.”

“Going forward — because, unfortunately, there will be other horrific events like this — people like Alex Jones will have to rethink what they say,” Sherlach said.

As for Jones, who has repeatedly stressed that he does not have the money to pay the families, analysts have theorized that he is, in all likelihood, financially ruined for life.

“We’re talking about such outsized numbers that even if he’s able to bob and weave some, I just don’t see how he winds up anything but basically broke now for the rest of his life,” Harry Litman, a former US Attorney, told MSNBC.