Edgar Maddison Welch, who was shot dead by North Carolina police Saturday in a seemingly unrelated incident, stormed Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington D.C. in 2016 with an AR-15 assault rifle

The conspiracy theorist who pulled a gun on a Washington, D.C., pizza shop in 2016 over a conspiracy theory was killed by police in a traffic stop in North Carolina. Police say Edgar Welch was shot last week by two North Carolina police officers after he pulled a gun on them during a traffic stop.

Police say that despite being ordered to drop the weapon, Welch didn't comply, leading two officers to shoot him during the traffic stop in Kannapolis, North Carolina