Federal investigators say a North Carolina man spurred by an internet conspiracy theory tried to recruit others to join him in a violent confrontation at a Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant, where he believed a child sex trafficking ring was operating.
28 year-old Edgar Maddison Welch has been held in jail since he was arrested after firing shots from an assault rifle inside the Comet Ping Pong restaurant in D.C. on December 4.
, the FBI indicated Welch had been spurred to drive several hundred miles to Washington by a YouTube video about “Pizzagate,” the conspiracy theory that
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