Before you can write that review you’ll have to review Yelp’s “Active Cleanup Alert” pop-up informing Yelp users when an establishment is battling a controversial news story. He told police that while he was inside, he searched for evidence of hidden rooms, tunnels and child sex-trafficking of any kind.Say you have a great meal at Comet Ping Pong and want to leave the Upper Northwest restaurant a four- or five-star review. He also admitted to having a loaded shotgun and ammunition in his car. 38 caliber revolver, both of which were left in the restaurant, according to the complaint. He told officers that he had an AR-15 and a. Welch exited the building with his hands in the air, complying with officers. The employee said Welch pointed the AR-15 rifle in his direction, the documents state, but Welch denied raising the firearm at the employee.Īfter the customers and employees left the restaurant, police created a perimeter around it, and at about 3:24 p.m. As he moved toward the back of the restaurant, employees and customers fled the building.Īs everyone was fleeing, Welch encountered an employee returning from the back freezer, according to court documents. 4, he left his home in North Carolina and drove straight to the restaurant in Washington.ĭuring the drive, he told his girlfriend something to the effect of he "might be gone awhile," according to the documents.Ĭourt documents say he appears to have recorded a cellphone video during the drive in which he looks into the camera and tells family members that he loves them and that he hoped he had "showed it." He added that he hoped he would be able to "tell again," the papers say.Īt around 3 p.m., he arrived at the restaurant, where witnesses say they saw Welch holding an assault rifle across his chest, according to the complaint. Welch allegedly told police that on Sunday, Dec. The world is too afraid to act and I'm too stubborn not to," he added, according to the complaint. "I'm sorry bro, but I'm tired of turning on the channel and hoping someone does something and being thankful it's not my family. In a text to a friend the next day, it says, Welch allegedly wrote that the "cause" was "raiding a pedo ring, possibly sacrificing the lives of a few for the lives of many." In a text message to his girlfriend that day, Welch wrote that he had been researching the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory and it was making him "sick," the complaint says. It appears Welch was contemplating a "violent confrontation" at the restaurant since at least Dec. The federal charges, which were unsealed today, allege that police discovered cellphone evidence with a trove of text messages to Welch's girlfriend and friends about his plans. He said he decided to investigate the reports on his own, according to the criminal complaint. Police said Welch told them that he had learned of "news" reports that a child sex-trafficking ring was being conducted in hidden rooms at the pizzeria. — - The suspected gunman in the "Pizzagate" shooting in Washington, D.C., which authorities said was sparked by a fake news story, is now facing federal charges and allegedly said that he could be "sacrificing the lives of a few for the lives of many," according to court documents.Įdgar Maddison Welch was arrested last week and initially faced local charges after allegedly firing an AR-15 assault rifle multiple times inside a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C., Comet Ping Pong.
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