The man who showed up armed to a Washington, D.C., pizzeria after falling for a debunked conspiracy involving allegations of child sex trafficking was shot to death in a traffic stop.

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

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 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

Rumors about Haliey Welch's brother have hit social media faster than a hawk tuah. Some think she could be related to the Pizzagate gunman.

Edgar Maddison Welch was armed when he tried to take action against "Pizzagate," a conspiracy theory that spread during the election cycle of 2016.

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 police during a weekend traffic stop.

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, 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

A man who nearly a decade ago fired a gun inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant due to a fake online conspiracy theory targeting Democrats and Hillary Clinton was recently shot and killed by North Carolina police.