Man opens fire in restaurant targeted by anti-Clinton "PizzaGate" fake news conspiracy - sex ring
by:KISSTOY
2020-01-16
WASHINGTON, D. C. --
A man said he was investigating a conspiracy theory that Hillary Clinton had shipped a child's sex ring out of the pizzeria with assault rifles in Washington, D. C. C.
Police and news reports said no one was injured at the restaurant on Sunday.
Metropolitan Police spokesman Aquita Brown said police detained a 28-year-oldyear-
Old man from Salisbury, North Carolina.
The deputy mayor in charge of Public Safety and Justice said on Twitter that the suspect had been identified as Edgar Madison Welch. .
@ Dcalgedept press release regarding the 28-year-old Edgar Madison Welch was arrested for attacking dangerous weapons at the Comet restaurant. pic. twitter. com/IkSJUeHM2y—
Deputy mayor Donahue (@SafeDC)
On December 5, 2016, the police responded and arrested Welch without incident.
Brown said they found a "assault rifle ".
Welch was accused of using dangerous weapons to carry out the attack.
Police said in a statement on Sunday night that trend news google Cloud outagemailing Connecticut mom beach gunfight protesters interrupted HarrisTwo guns were found inside the restaurant and from the suspect's
The MPD said in a statement that the suspect entered the location and pointed a gun to an employee at the restaurant.
The victims were able to flee and inform the police.
According to the MPD, the number of shots the suspect has opened in the restaurant has not been determined. During a post-
During the arrest interview, the suspect also revealed that he was from me.
The MPD said in a statement that the "Pizza Gate" was investigated ".
As CBS affiliate WUSA has previously reported, using hashtag # PizzaGate, a fictional story about the popular pizzeria in social media and with "alt-
The right wing movement accused its boss of allowing Bill and Hillary Clinton and their former campaign managers to run a child sex slavery gang.
As a result, the pizza shop has been hit by thousands of threats and bizarre, unproven stories about sex deals for children for weeks in a row.
WUSA reported that they found two women, who did not want to be named, banging on the terrace of the pizza shop at the end of November.
These women are looking for so-called tunnels for child trafficking.
"All of this is an underground tunnel that can help bring children to and from transport so they can do these rituals," one of them said . ".
"They put a lot of curses and spells on the city.
They are kidnapping the missing child.
They never did because of D. C.
Know where they are
"James Alefantis, owner of Comet Ping-Pong, said there is no basement in the store.
He said that because he and a friend supported Clinton's campaign, he suspected that the story had only surfaced.
"These people are destroying their lives," neighbor Maura Dougherty said of conspiracy theorists . ". “It’s insane.
"Before the recent incident, the owner of Ping told WUSA that the conspirators of PizzaGate also harassed and abused his employees.
The manager received a lot of threatening and vulgar information and his wife asked him to resign.
Online bullies are also chasing other businesses in the neighborhood.