| N.C. man told police he went to a D.C. pizzeria with an assault rifle to 'self-investigate' an election-related conspiracy theory |
The lone suspect, 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., walked in the front door of Comet Ping Pong and appears to have fired one or multiple shots into the ground after employees and patrons had fled, police said.
The restaurant’s owner and employees were threatened on social media in the days before the election after fake news stories circulated claiming that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief were running a child sex ring from the restaurant’s back rooms. |
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