The “ Pizzagate ” gunman who sprayed a round of bullets at a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. in 2016, after traveling hundreds of miles to “self-investigate” a conspiracy theory , has been shot dead by two police officers at a traffic stop .
Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, was shot at around 10pm Saturday after he pulled a handgun on two Kannapolis Police officers and failed to back down, according to a Kannapolis Fire and Police Department statement Thursday.
On December 4, 2016, Welch made national headlines when he drove from North Carolina with an assault rifle and stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington after believing an unfounded conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were behind a child sex trafficking ring operating from inside the pizzeria – no one was injured in the attack…