The man who showed up armed to a Washington, D.C., pizzeria after falling for a debunked conspiracy involving allegations of child sex trafficking was shot to death in a traffic stop.

Police said Edgar Maddison Welch pulled out a gun during a traffic stop and when he did not drop it as instructed, was shot by police.

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, of Salisbury, N.C., who was sentenced to four years in prison for the 2016 shooting at a Washington restaurant, was fatally shot after he pointed a gun at an officer during a traffic stop,

The man, Edgar Maddison Welch, went to a D.C. restaurant in 2016 armed with a handgun and rifle to put an end to an alleged Satanic child sex abuse

In 2016, he took an assault rifle to a Washington pizzeria over a conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were operating a child sex trafficking ring out of it.

The 'Pizzagate' gunman, Edgar Maddison Welch, was killed after he was involved in a police officer-involved shooting during a traffic stop in North Carolina on Saturday, Jan. 4.

Edgar Maddison Welch stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. with an AR-15 assault rifle and a revolver after believing a hoax conspiracy theory that prominent Democrats were behind a chil

Edgar Maddison Welch was sentenced to four years in prison for shooting inside a Washington, D.C. pizzeria because he thought they were trafficking children.

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, after pulling out a gun during a traffic stop, Kannapolis Fire and Police announced.

The man who opened fire in a popular D.C. pizza parlor, thinking it was part of a pedophile conspiracy, was killed after police allege he pulled a gun on officers.

A North Carolina man who fired a gun inside a Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant in 2016 due to a right-wing conspiracy theory was fatally shot by police last week during a traffic stop, authorities said Thursday.