‘Pizzagate’ Gunman Killed By Police In North Carolina

The man who fired a gun inside of Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington D.C. after believing “prominent Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of the pizzeria” was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a traffic stop last week.

Edgar Welch, the Pizza Gate gunman, was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over in a traffic stop in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

As police instructed Welch to exit the vehicle, he pulled a gun at the officers and was instructed to drop his weapon.

After refusing to drop his weapon, the officer shot Welch, and he was later pronounced dead.

‘Pizzagate’ gunman Edgar Welch shot and killed after flashing firearm during traffic stop in NC https://t.co/fX3qDqUXTT pic.twitter.com/tt8Add4COA

— New York Post (@nypost) January 10, 2025

The Man who went into Comet Ping Pong in 2016 Causing the term PozzaGate to Explode, has died, after reportedly drawing his gun at a Traffic Stop

Edgar Madison Welch was searching for a child sex ring he believed was occurring at the facility… pic.twitter.com/yyeyPN7sQ1

— Mary (@Successful4444) January 10, 2025

Here’s what CNN reported:

A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation’s capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called “Pizzagate” motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop.

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Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by officers in Kannapolis on Saturday night, according to a Kannapolis Police Department news release. One of the officers recognized the car as the vehicle of someone he had arrested and who had an outstanding warrant for a felony probation violation – Welch, police said.

When the officers approached the vehicle to arrest Welch, police said the man pulled out a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers. After he was instructed to drop the weapon but didn’t, two officers shot Welch, authorities said.

Emergency responders took Welch to the hospital, and he died from his injuries two days later, according to the release. None of the officers, nor the driver or another passenger, were injured.

In 2016, authorities said, Welch drove from North Carolina to Comet Ping Pong restaurant in Washington with an assault rifle after believing an unfounded conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of the pizzeria. The fake theory, dubbed “Pizzagate,” began circulating online during the 2016 presidential election.

He entered the restaurant armed, and as customers fled the scene, Welch shot at a locked closet inside. After realizing there were no children held captive in the pizzeria, Welch peacefully surrendered. No one was injured.

At the time, Comet Ping Pong’s owner, James Alefantis, said the conspiracy theory and subsequent violence from it traumatized him and his staff.

North Carolina police fatally shot the Pizzagate gunman Edgar Maddison Welch in a traffic stop on Saturday and he died in the hospital two days later.

Welch is the patsy who was used in the false flag shooting at Comet Ping Pong in 2016 that enabled MSM scum like Megyn Kelly to… https://t.co/FH26qbBKjl pic.twitter.com/RX4mdN3zQl

— LIZ CROKIN (@LizCrokin) January 10, 2025

Per USA Today:

The man who stormed into a Washington D.C. restaurant with loaded weapons during an incident widely known as “Pizzagate” is now dead after North Carolina police shot him during a traffic stop.

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. last Saturday, Kannapolis Fire and Police wrote in a news release this week.

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Welch is the same Salisbury, North Carolina man who in December 2016, showed up to Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in Washington DC., with loaded weapons to investigate “unfounded rumors concerning a child sex-trafficking ring” that was allegedly operating out of the restaurant, federal prosecutors said.

He pleaded guilty in March 2017 to a federal charge of interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition, as well as a District of Columbia charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.