Skitzocow Edgar Maddison Welch

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D.C. police quickly apprehended Sunday a North Carolina man with a rifle who walked into the Comet Ping Pong restaurant on Connecticut Avenue in Northwest seeking to investigate a debunked internet conspiracy theory.

Just before 3 p.m. members of the Second District received a call for a man with a firearm. The suspect, later revealed to be 28-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch of Salisbury, North Carolina, entered Comet Ping Pong and pointed a gun in the direction of one of the restaurant’s employees.

Welch fired the rifle, but no one was hurt. The employee was able to flee and notify police, who apprehended Welch without incident. Two other firearms were recovered inside the popular eatery and another weapon was recovered from his car.


Police said during a post arrest interview Sunday night, the suspect revealed that he came to the establishment to self-investigate “Pizza Gate,” which investigators described as “a fictitious online conspiracy theory.’

The Friendship Heights pizza restaurant has faced harassment and negative attention due to conspiracy theories alleging the restaurant is the site of child trafficking ring and is in cahoots with Hillary Clinton and her top campaign staffers. Conspiracy theorists have used the hashtag #PizzaGate to promote the hoax.

The false rumors emerged during the presidential election after the release of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was shown to have emailed James Alefantis, the restaurant’s owner, about a fundraiser.

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A 28-year-old North Carolina man is accused of firing a gun inside a Washington, D.C. pizza place after he went to “self-investigate” an election-related “fictitious online conspiracy theory,” police say.

Edgar Maddison Welch entered the Comet Ping Pong restaurant, which was packed with customers, about 3 p.m. Sunday, and pointed a gun at an employee, the D.C. Metro Police Department said in a press release.

The employees and diners inside the restaurant were able to flee, and police said Welch, of Salisbury, fired his gun after they left.

No one was injured. Police responded to the scene and Welch was arrested without incident.Photos and videos taken by witnesses show Welch coming out of the restaurant and surrendering to police in the street with his arms in the air.

The “PizzaGate” conspiracy theory was spawned out of Wikileaks emails in November, and involves claims that leaders of the Democratic Party, including Hillary and Bill Clinton and Clinton campaign manager John Podesta, were part of a pedophilia ring operating out of the Comet Ping Pong pizza place, according to the BBC.

No evidence has been found to confirm the theory, which has been debunked by Snopes, many news sites, including the New York Times, and also on Fox News.

 

[JU 199]

looks like a Deagle Nation wannabe.

 

[女鬼]

Lol "self-investigating" by barging in alone with a firearm.

What was he expecting anyway, did he think he'd find a bunch of kids in chains hidden behind the bologna sauce?

 

[Doc Cassidy]

A true hero! Thank you Edgar

 

[ICametoLurk]

He should have asked for the Cheese Pizza Special if he wanted to see some kids.

 

[DoctorJimmyRay]

Mother of Christ this reads like an Onion article. Of all the asinine things to have forever attached to your name online. How does one explain "#pizzagate" to any potential future employers?

 

[Chan the Wizard]

Mother of Christ this reads like an Onion article. Of all the asinine things to have forever attached to your name online. How does one explain "#pizzagate" to any potential future employers?

I don't think this guy ever had any potential future employers.

 

[polonium]

He doesn't look like someone called Edgar

 

[randomfarmer]

Robert Edward Lee.
Charles Julius Guiteau.
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Gary Leon Ridgway.
John Wayne Gracy.
John Wilkes Booth.
Paul John Knowles.
Edgar Maddison Welch.
I don't want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but surely they need to kill this guy before he assassinates any pizzas.

 

[Hellfire]

Is this him?

https://www.facebook.com/maddison.welch.33
https://archive.is/WHNYk

If it is, I hope those aren't his children in the Overwatch costume picture. How could he do this to his family.

He may also use the handle "madddog"

 

[Null]

Is this him?

Definitely is.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

What an imbecile. A public restaurant would have to be the dumbest place to hold a child trafficking ring. What say somebody went down to the basement looking for the bathroom, what if an FSIS agent barged in to investigate?

 

[DoctorJimmyRay]

How could he do this to his family.

Because some brave soul had to crawl their way out of reddit and take down Shillary's consiratorial elitist pan-DC liberal pedo jewocracy before it was too late, clearly.

 

[Mikemikev]

He should have asked for the Cheese Pizza Special if he wanted to see some kids.

TFW you order the cheese latte at Comet Ping Pong

 

[aerostar88]

Lol "self-investigating" bybarging in alone with a firearm.
What was he expecting anyway, did he think he'd find a bunch of kids in chains hidden behind the bologna sauce?

HRC herself making the dough? Times are tough. Also, I love pizzagate as much as any good conspiracy theory. If you so much as cast a tiny shadow of doubt you will quickly be accused of being totally OK with child abuse. With so little evidence, it seems like some conspiracy theorists have been doing a lot of weird wishful thinking.

But Reddit said it was true so I guess I better get into my finest supreme gentleman cosplay and go "get some answers"!

 

[Broseph Stalin]

Not even Eli would attempt something this retarded. He'd at least go in with a GoPro and a plan formulated by the greatest tactical genius of our era.

 

[Honeybunny]

Last I checked waving a loaded rifle at people doesn't say 'I'm here to investigate claims of a child trafficking ring' but 'I'm homicidally insane'

Apparently Edgar here didn't get the memo

 

[Treblinkachu]

I hope it was the tacticool rifle from the pic too.

 

[A Random]

At least nobody got hurt.

Is #Pizzagate confirmed more dangerous than #Gamergate now?

 

[a dinosaur]

Unsurprisingly, not his first brush with the law. Dude also ran over a 13 year old back in October.