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.

Police said Edgar Maddison Welch pulled out a gun during a traffic stop and when he did not drop it as instructed, was shot by police.

He pled guilty to a to a federal charge of interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition, and a D.C. charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.

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

Edgar Maddison Welch, who was shot dead by North Carolina police Saturday in a seemingly unrelated incident, stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. in 2016 with an AR-15 assault rifle

The 'Pizzagate' gunman, Edgar Maddison Welch, was killed after he was involved in a police officer-involved shooting during a traffic stop in North Carolina on Saturday, Jan. 4.

Kannapolis police said Edgar Maddison Welch pointed a gun at officers on Saturday, two of whom then fired at him.

The man who opened fire in a popular D.C. pizza parlor, thinking it was part of a pedophile conspiracy, was killed after police allege he pulled a gun on officers.

A North Carolina man who fired a gun inside a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant in 2016 due to a right-wing conspiracy theory was fatally shot by police last week during a traffic stop, authorities said Thursday.