Edgar Welch fired an assault rifle inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant in December 2016 while claiming to investigate the "pizzagate" hoax.

Authorities say the man who traveled armed to a pizzeria in the nation’s capital nearly a decade ago because of a fake online conspiracy theory has been shot and killed by police in North Carolina

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A North Carolina man known for investigating an election-related conspiracy theory in D.C. that was dubbed “pizzagate” was shot and killed by police in North Carolina. On Monday, Jan. 4, at around 10 p.

In 2016, he fired a gun inside a Washington pizza shop because of an unfounded conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of the building.

Welch was sentenced to four years in federal prison after he entered Comet Ping Pong in Washington on Dec. 4, 2016, with firearms and fired shots inside the building. He said he drove to the restaurant from North Carolina to investigate an unfounded conspiracy theory about Democrats committing child sex crimes at the pizza restaurant.

Edgar Maddison Welch, an avid QAnon follower, made headlines when he fired shots inside a pizza parlor in 2016.

A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation's capital after a fake online conspiracy theory motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police.

The man who entered a D.C. pizzeria with an assault rifle to investigate the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory in 2016 was killed by police in North Carolina earlier this month.

Edgar Maddison Welch traveled from North Carolina to Washington, D.C., and fired shots in a pizza restaurant, acting on a conspiracy theory that had spread online.

was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop. Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by officers in Kannapolis on Saturday night, according to a ...

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