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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Madeline Sherratt

What was the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy theory that Edgar Welch believed in as gunman is killed by police?

“Pizzagate” gunman Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, was shot dead Saturday night after he pulled a handgun on two Kannapolis Police officers and failed to back down - (AP/Wikimedia Commons)

The “Pizzagate” gunman who sprayed a round of bullets at a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C. in 2016, after traveling hundreds of miles to “self-investigate” a conspiracy theory, has been shot dead by two police officers at a traffic stop.

Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, was shot at around 10pm Saturday after he pulled a handgun on two Kannapolis Police officers and failed to back down, according to a Kannapolis Fire and Police Department statement Thursday.

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