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.

(AP) - A man who fired a gun inside a Washington D.C. restaurant, motivated by a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” nearly a decade ago, was shot and killed by North Carolina ...