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.

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,

A North Carolina man known for investigating an election-related conspiracy theory in D.C. that was dubbed “pizzagate” was shot and killed by police in North Carolina.