‘Pizzagate’ Gunman Edgar Maddison Welch Sentenced to Four Years in Prison.
'The North Carolina man who fired a rifle inside a Washington, D.C., pizzeria as he chased down
an internet rumour related to Hillary Clinton was sentenced Thursday to four years behind bars.
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Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, had pleaded guilty in March to two charges stemming from the Dec. 4
incident at the Comet Ping Pong restaurant.
Prosecutors say he was self-investigating an online conspiracy theory -dubbed "Pizzagate" -that
claimed the pizzeria was harboring a child sex-trafficking ring with connections to influential
Democrats. Washington police and the FBI denied the theories had any substance.
Federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Thursday that even though Welch didn't harm anyone,
his unsound actions "literally left psychological wreckage," according to The Associated Press.
Jackson added that Welch still went ahead with his "ill-conceived plot" when others warned him
not to, and that he should have simply contacted law enforcement if he believed the restaurant
was engaged in something illicit -instead of driving the more than 4-1/2 hours from his home to
the nation's capital to "rescue" the nonexistent children...'
NBC News:
'The North Carolina man who fired a rifle inside a Washington, D.C., pizzeria as he chased down
an internet rumour related to Hillary Clinton was sentenced Thursday to four years behind bars.
Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, had pleaded guilty in March to two charges stemming from the Dec. 4
incident at the Comet Ping Pong restaurant.
Prosecutors say he was self-investigating an online conspiracy theory -dubbed "Pizzagate" -that
claimed the pizzeria was harboring a child sex-trafficking ring with connections to influential
Democrats. Washington police and the FBI denied the theories had any substance.
Federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Thursday that even though Welch didn't harm anyone,
his unsound actions "literally left psychological wreckage," according to The Associated Press.
Jackson added that Welch still went ahead with his "ill-conceived plot" when others warned him
not to, and that he should have simply contacted law enforcement if he believed the restaurant
was engaged in something illicit -instead of driving the more than 4-1/2 hours from his home to
the nation's capital to "rescue" the nonexistent children...'
NBC News:
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