'Pizzagate' gunman killed by police in North Carolina after traffic stop, authorities say

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'Pizzagate' gunman killed by police in North Carolina after traffic stop, authorities say
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Authorities say the man who traveled armed to a pizzeria in the nation's capital nearly a decade ago because of a fake online conspiracy theory has been shot and killed by police in North Carolina.

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Read full article: Parents want answers after awarded-winning childcare facility removed from Harris County funding program Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle stopped by officers in Kannapolis on Saturday night, according to a Kannapolis Police Department news release. One of the officers recognized the car as the vehicle of someone he had arrested and who had an outstanding warrant for a felony probation violation — Welch, police said.When the officers approached the vehicle to arrest Welch, police said the man pulled out a handgun and pointed it at one of the officers.

Welch later pled guilty to interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition and assault with a dangerous weapon in 2017. His judge, now Supreme Court Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson, subsequently

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