{"id":30111,"date":"2025-01-09T23:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/gunman-in-pizzagate-conspiracy-attack-fatally-shot-by-north-carolina-police\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T23:04:55","slug":"gunman-in-pizzagate-conspiracy-attack-fatally-shot-by-north-carolina-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/gunman-in-pizzagate-conspiracy-attack-fatally-shot-by-north-carolina-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman in \u2018Pizzagate\u2019 conspiracy attack fatally shot by North Carolina police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During traffic stop, officers fire at Edgar Welch, 2016 shooter at eatery mistakenly thought to be center of pedophile ring<\/p>\n<p>The gunman involved in the 2016 \u201cPizzagate\u201d conspiracy theory attack on a Washington DC pizza restaurant that was mistakenly thought to be at the center of a pedophile ring has died after being shot by police in North Carolina during a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Kannapolis911\/\">issued<\/a> on Thursday, North Carolina\u2019s Kannapolis police department announced that Edgar Maddison Welch died from his wounds caused by two police officers who fired at him after he pulled out a handgun during a traffic stop on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/09\/pizzagate-gunman-dead-police-shooting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During traffic stop, officers fire at Edgar Welch, 2016 shooter at eatery mistakenly thought to be center of pedophile ring The gunman involved in the 2016 \u201cPizzagate\u201d conspiracy theory attack on a Washington DC pizza restaurant that was mistakenly thought to be at the center of a pedophile ring has died after being shot by &#8230; <a title=\"Gunman in \u2018Pizzagate\u2019 conspiracy attack fatally shot by North Carolina police\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/gunman-in-pizzagate-conspiracy-attack-fatally-shot-by-north-carolina-police\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gunman in \u2018Pizzagate\u2019 conspiracy attack fatally shot by North Carolina police\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}