Welch visited DC in 2016 to “investigate” Comet Ping Pong in Chevy Chase, which a bizarre conspiracy theory had posited as ...

The man who opened fire in a popular D.C. pizza parlor, thinking it was part of a pedophile conspiracy, was killed after ...

A man who fired a gun inside a Washington D.C. restaurant, motivated by a fake online conspiracy theory nearly a decade ago, ...

The sign for the Comet Ping Pong restaurant is seen in Washingon, DC, on December 5, 2016. Photo: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images The conspiracy theorist who entered Comet Ping Pong restaurant ...

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Edgar Maddison Welch was armed when he tried to take action against "Pizzagate," a conspiracy theory that spread during the ...

Edgar Welch opened fire in a Northwest D.C. pizza parlor based on the unfounded internet “Pizzagate” theory that the ...

On December 4, 2016, Welch made national headlines when he drove from North Carolina with an assault rifle and stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington after believing an unfounded ...

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 ...