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

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. last Saturday, Kannapolis Fire and Police wrote in a news release this week. Welch is the same Salisbury, North Carolina man who in December ...

Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, was shot at around 10pm Saturday after he pulled a handgun on two Kannapolis Police officers and failed to back down, according to a Kannapolis Fire and Police ...

Jan. 4 Sathi Soma via AP Edgar Maddison Welch, the North Carolina man known for becoming the face of the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, was killed by two Kannapolis, N.C., police officers ...

Edgar Maddison Welch was shot by police over the weekend and died from ... Police Chief Terry L. Spry in Kannapolis, North ...

Edgar Maddison Welch became the name and face associated ... On the morning of Jan. 4, police in Kannapolis, North Carolina, northeast of Charlotte, said they encountered Welch as a passenger ...

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

Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by officers in Kannapolis on Saturday night, according to a Kannapolis Police Department news release. One of the officers recognized the ...