Edgar Maddison Welch stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. with an AR-15 assault rifle and a revolver after believing a hoax conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were behind a chil

The conspiracy theorist who entered Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington D.C. with two guns in late 2016 as part of the Pizzagate hysteria was shot by police on Jan. 4 and died this past Monday, according to a press release from the Kannapolis Police Department in North Carolina.

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, of Salisbury, N.C., who was sentenced to four years in prison for the 2016 shooting at a Washington restaurant, was fatally shot after he pointed a gun at an officer during a traffic stop,

The conspiracy theorist who pulled a gun on a Washington, D.C., pizza shop in 2016 over a conspiracy theory was killed by police in a traffic stop in North Carolina. Police say Edgar Welch was shot last week by two North Carolina police officers after he pulled a gun on them during a traffic stop.

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

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, after pulling out a gun during a traffic stop, Kannapolis Fire and Police announced.

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

Edgar Maddison Welch had pulled out a gun during a traffic stop in North Carolina. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In 2016, he fired a gun inside a Washington pizza shop because of an unfounded conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of the building.