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.

In 2016, he took an assault rifle to a Washington pizzeria over a conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of it.

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.

The man who fired a gun in a Washington, D.C., restaurant in 2016 under the false impression the business was a front for child trafficking has been killed by police. Edgar Maddison Welch had been sentenced to four years in prison in 2017 for his role in what became known as “Pizzagate,

Police say that despite being ordered to drop the weapon, Welch didn't comply, leading two officers to shoot him during the traffic stop in Kannapolis, North Carolina