A man who opened fire inside a Washington restaurant in 2016, after being motivated by the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory, was shot by North Carolina police during a traffic stop over the weekend and died two days later.
Edgar Maddison Welch was a passenger in a vehicle that was stopped by officers in Kannapolis on the night of Jan. 4, according to a Jan. 9 statement from the Kannapolis Police Department.
Police said the traffic stop occurred at about 10 p.m. when one of the officers recognized the vehicle Welch was in as “normally driven by an individual who he had previously arrested, and knew had an outstanding warrant for arrest.”…