The “Pizzagate” gunman who eight years ago opened fire at a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant he mistakenly believed was the center of a child sex ring linked to Hillary Clinton was shot and killed by a North Carolina police officer Saturday during a traffic stop. The authorities announced that. .
Kannapolis police shot and killed Edgar Welch, a Salisbury resident, after he fired a gun at authorities while sitting in the passenger seat of a 2001 GMC Yukon, authorities said.
Welch gained notoriety in December 2016 when he pulled the trigger of an AR-15 aboard the Comet Ping Pong in Washington, D.C., to “stand against a corrupt system that kidnaps, tortures, and rapes infants and children in their own backyards.” court documents state. at that time.
The agitated gunman, who drove from North Carolina, wildly claims that Clinton and her presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta, were behind the leak of a non-existent child sex ring from the restaurant's basement. I believed there was a conspiracy.
He shot at the warehouse door, but fortunately no one inside was injured. He realized that the children were not taken prisoner and surrendered.
Welch pleaded guilty in the federal case and was sentenced in 2017 to four years in prison by then-district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, now a Supreme Court justice.
But he was in legal trouble again this weekend when officers stopped the car he was in and recognized him as a suspect with an outstanding warrant for a felony probation violation, according to law enforcement. It is said that he was caught and lost his life this time.
When one of the officers opened the door to arrest Welch, the convict pulled a gun from his jacket and pointed it at the officers, Kannapolis police said.
When he refused to drop his weapon, two officers shot him and he was rushed to a local hospital. He died from his wounds on Monday.
The three officers at the scene and the driver were not injured.
“The North Carolina Bureau of Investigation continues to investigate this incident, and the officers who fired their weapons remain on administrative leave as per standard procedure,” the department said in a statement.
with post wire
