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Mr. Heslin testified first on Tuesday. In a low voice and pausing frequently to weep, he described his son as an energetic boy with a booming voice, who liked to team up with his father to collect scrap metal and recyclables that he returned for spending money. When the gunman entered Jesse’s classroom, he shouted “Run!” during a pause in the shooting. Nine children ran, and survived.

Mr. Heslin said conspiracy theorists had tried to contact him by phone, confronted and shoved him on the street. Someone fired a gun into his house and car. This spring, he said, someone drove past his house and shouted “Alex Jones!” and he heard the sound of gunfire.

Glancing at Mr. Jones’s empty seat at the defense table, Mr. Heslin called his absence “a cowardly act.”

“The statements and the remarks made by both Infowars and Alex Jones have tarnished Jesse’s legacy,” he added.

While Mr. Heslin was testifying, Mr. Jones was across town broadcasting his show. After watching Mr. Heslin’s testimony on a courtroom YouTube feed, he called the grieving father “slow,” and “manipulated by some very bad people.”

An hour later, Mr. Jones turned up in court flanked by his spouse and a cadre of bodyguards. Ms. Lewis, who had seen the broadcast maligning Mr. Heslin during a break in her testimony, was waiting for him.