The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in after a 19-year-old was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy. The deceased was identified as 19-year-old Alec Edward Shaw. The fatal shooting took place on Jan.

Authorities say the man who traveled armed to a pizzeria in the nation’s capital nearly a decade ago because of a fake online conspiracy theory has been shot and killed by police in North Carolina

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, after pulling out a gun during a traffic stop, Kannapolis Fire and Police announced.

Edgar Maddison Welch, the man known for becoming the face of the 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theory, was shot on Saturday, Jan. 4

The man who fired a gun in a Washington, D.C., restaurant in 2016 under the false impression the business was a front for child trafficking has been killed by police. Edgar Maddison Welch had been sentenced to four years in prison in 2017 for his role in what became known as “Pizzagate,

A North Carolina man known for investigating an election-related conspiracy theory in D.C. that was dubbed “pizzagate” was shot and killed by police in North Carolina.

Police said Edgar Maddison Welch pulled out a gun during a traffic stop and when he did not drop it as instructed, was shot by police.

The man, Edgar Maddison Welch, went to a D.C. restaurant in 2016 armed with a handgun and rifle to put an end to an alleged Satanic child sex abuse