The “Pizzagate” gunman who fired his rifle in a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant in 2016 after acting on a debunked conspiracy theory has died following a fatal traffic stop. Edgar
Maddison Welch was shot by police over the weekend and died from his injuries on Monday, authorities in North Carolina said Thursday.
Almost 10 years ago, Welch made national headlines when he traveled to the nation’s capital from North Carolina and fired shots in the Comet Ping Pong restaurant, spurred by a conspiracy
theory that had spread online.
Prosecutors said at the time that Welch was trying to investigate an internet conspiracy theory about the pizza restaurant being home to a child sex-trafficking ring connected to prominent
Democratic politicians, a false claim that became known as “Pizzagate.”
Full story: ‘Pizzagate’ gunman killed by police during traffic stop in North Carolina