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 man, Edgar Maddison Welch, went to a D.C. restaurant in 2016 armed with a handgun and rifle to put an end to an alleged Satanic child sex abuse ...

Police say that despite being ordered to drop the weapon, Welch didn't comply, leading two officers to shoot him during the traffic stop in Kannapolis, North Carolina ...

Edgar Welch opened fire in a Northwest D.C. pizza parlor based on the unfounded internet “Pizzagate” theory that the restaurant was trafficking children.

who was at the center of the bizarre story that came to be known as "Pizzagate," news outlets said. It involved the bogus conspiracy theory that Comet Ping Pong, a Washington pizza restaurant ...

The man who in 2016 showed up to a popular pizza restaurant with a gun, claiming there were children being trafficked in the basement, died in an officer-involved shooting on Thursday outside of ...

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 ...

At the time of Welch’s death, the conspiracy theories around the Pizzagate saga extended to rumors that he was the brother of Hailey Welch aka The Hawk Tuah girl. The Pizzagate theory was ...

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) — 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 ...

The shooting death of Welch is under review by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, and the officers who fired at him are on administrative leave, per the department’s protocol.

Edgar Maddison Welch Facebook The man who opened fire in a pizzeria at Washington, D.C., in 2016 as he tried to investigate the so-called “Pizzagate” child-sex trafficking conspiracy theory, Edgar ...

Edgar Maddison Welch traveled from North Carolina to Washington, D.C., and fired shots in a pizza restaurant, acting on a ...