KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — The suspect who was killed by police officers in Kannapolis this week was the same man who was convicted of firing an assault rifle at a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant in 2016.
Kannapolis Police say Salisbury resident Edgar Maddison Welch was wanted for felony probation violation when an officer spotted his vehicle Saturday night, Jan. 4. When the officer opened, Welch pulled a handgun and pointed it at the officer. After allegedly being told to drop the gun and not complying, officers shot him, and he died Monday at a local hospital.
In 2017, Welch was sentenced to four years in prison from an incident that became known as “Pizzagate.” He pled guilty to a to a federal charge of interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition, and a D.C. charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. He was sentenced by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, now on the U.S. Supreme Court…