The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation has been called in after a 19-year-old was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy. The deceased was identified as 19-year-old Alec Edward Shaw. The fatal shooting took place on Jan.

Authorities say the man who traveled armed to a pizzeria in the nation’s capital nearly a decade ago because of a fake online conspiracy theory has been shot and killed by police in North Carolina

Edgar Maddison Welch, 36, was shot just after 10 p.m. on Jan. 4, after pulling out a gun during a traffic stop, Kannapolis Fire and Police announced.

Edgar Maddison Welch, the man known for becoming the face of the 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theory, was shot on Saturday, Jan. 4

A North Carolina man known for investigating an election-related conspiracy theory in D.C. that was dubbed “pizzagate” was shot and killed by police in North Carolina.