‘Pizzagate’ gunman fatally shot by police during traffic stop
‘Pizzagate’ gunman fatally shot by police during traffic stop
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Police said man who brandished weapons years ago at the ‘Pizzagate’ restaurant, refused to drop his revolver when pulled over. The dead man, Edgar Maddison Welch, was charged years ago in 2016 after brandishing an assault weapon and revolver at a Washington D.C. pizza shop at the center of the notorious fake “Pizzazgate” conspiracy theory that the restaurant was the headquarters of a child sex-trafficking ring run by Democrats.
![[Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., surrenders to police, in Washington, D.C. in 2016.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/10/00/AP25009845265216-2-1.jpg)
None of the three officers on the scene, the vehicle’s driver, or a third passenger in a back seat were injured. The officers who fired on Welch have been placed on administration leave as the shooting is further investigated. The confrontation marked a bloody end to one of the most notorious anti-Democrat conspiracy theories that kicked off an era of increasingly wild, completely false political fantasies. Pizzagate conspiracists claimed Hillary Clinton and her then-presidential campaign manager in her race against now President-elect Donald Trump were involved in the satanic nest of child sex-traffickers.
They cited leaked emails between the two that were actually conversations about an possible upcoming political fundraiser at the restaurant, Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, which the conspiracy theorists insisted were in “code.”. When Welch stormed the restaurant brandishing his weapons, families with children fled for their lives. He searched for members or any evidence of the ring, but found nothing because it didn’t exist. He fired once into the door of a closet at the restaurant, but no one was injured.
