Fake news leads to DC gun drama
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A MAN who said he was investigating a fake news story about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place was arrested after firing a rifle inside the Washington DC restaurant, police said.
Edgar Maddison Welch, 28 of Salisbury, North Carolina, was arrested on Sunday afternoon at Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue in an affluent neighborhood of the US capital, police said. No one was injured in the incident.
Welch told police he’d come to the restaurant to “self-investigate” the fictitious online conspiracy theory that spread online during Clinton’s unsuccessful run for the White House, a police statement said.
Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Aquita Brown said police first received a call on Sunday afternoon about a male with a weapon.
Welch walked into the front door of the restaurant and pointed a gun in the direction of an employee, the police said. The employee fled and notified police.
Police set up a perimeter and arrested Welch safely, Interim DC Police Chief Peter Newsham said. He was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. Two guns were recovered inside the restaurant and an additional weapon was recovered from the suspect’s vehicle.
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