Edgar Welch fired an assault rifle inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant in December 2016 while claiming to investigate the 'pizzagate' hoax.
A man who fired an assault rifle inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant in December 2016 while claiming to investigate the 'pizzagate' hoax died this week after being fatally shot by police during a traffic stop in Kannapolis, North Carolina . On the night of Jan. 4, Edgar Welch was a passenger in a 2001 GMC Yukon that was stopped by officers, Kannapolis police said Thursday in a news statement.
The three officers involved in the traffic stop and the two other occupants in Welch's vehicle were uninjured, police said. The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation confirmed to CBS News Thursday Welch's identity as the 'pizzagate' shooter. Welch fired his weapon inside the Comet Ping Pong restaurant on Dec.
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