{"id":141213,"date":"2025-01-15T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141213"},"modified":"2025-01-15T03:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T03:47:17","slug":"man-who-attacked-d-c-pizza-parlor-in-2016-is-killed-by-police-in-n-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=141213","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Man who attacked D.C. pizza parlor in 2016 is killed by police in N.C.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/01\/09\/edgar-maddison-welch-pizzagate-killed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;A North Carolina man who fired shots into a popular D.C. pizza parlor that internet conspiracy theorists convinced him housed a satanic pedophile ring was shot to death last week by two North Carolina police officers. Authorities said he pulled a gun on them during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edgar Maddison Welch became the name and face associated with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/alleged-gunman-tells-police-he-wanted-to-rescue-children-at-dc-pizza-shop-after-hearing-fictional-internet-accounts\/2016\/12\/05\/cb5ebabc-bae8-11e6-ac85-094a21c44abc_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pizzagate<\/a>\u201d theory \u2014 the bizarre suggestion that children were being trafficked out of Comet Ping Pong, a busy, family-oriented pizza shop on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest Washington. On a Sunday afternoon in December 2016, having driven straight from his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina, police said, Welch walked into the restaurant openly carrying an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/interactive\/2023\/ar-15-damage-to-human-body\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AR-15-style rifle<\/a>&nbsp;and a revolver, causing customers and employees to flee in horror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a few minutes, Welch encountered a locked room and tried to force open the door, firing his rifle multiple times into the door, federal prosecutors said. After spending more than 20 minutes inside, Welch dropped his guns and exited Comet Ping Pong unarmed. No one was hurt. He would later\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/pizzagate-shooter-apologizes-in-handwritten-letter-for-his-mistakes-ahead-of-sentencing\/2017\/06\/13\/f35126b6-5086-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plead guilty<\/a>\u00a0to federal firearms charges and receive a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/pizzagate-gunman-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-as-prosecutors-urged-judge-to-deter-vigilante-justice\/2017\/06\/22\/a10db598-550b-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentence of four years in prison<\/a>. Federal records show he was released from custody in May 2020.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;A North Carolina man who fired shots into a popular D.C. pizza parlor that internet conspiracy theorists convinced him housed a satanic pedophile ring was shot to death last week by two North Carolina police officers. Authorities said he pulled a gun on them during a traffic stop. Edgar Maddison Welch became the name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141214,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141213\/revisions\/141214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}