A guy who became well-known for discharging his gun inside a pizza in the US capital was shot dead by police in North Carolina late Thursday, according to US media. The deceased guy became involved in the Pizzagate conspiracy, which falsely claimed that former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other prominent members of the US Democratic Party were conducting a child sex ring from the restaurant.

According to US news outlets, a North Carolina man was fatally shot by police during a traffic check. The guy who died two days after the shooting on Saturday was named as Edgar Maddison Welch, who grew infatuated with the odd “Pizzagate” hoax. Police in Kannapolis stopped a car they believed was driven by Welch, a passenger in the vehicle who had an outstanding warrant for felony probation violation.

As officers attempted to open the car and arrest him, Welch apparently grabbed a revolver and refused to drop it. Two officers then shot him, sustaining injuries that proved fatal. How is Welch tied to ‘Pizzagate’? Welch was arrested in December 2016 for firing an assault rifle inside the Comet Ping Pong pizza business. He informed police that he was in the capital to personally investigate allegations that Comet was a centre for child abductions.

The assertion represented an early incarnation of conspiracy theories that gained currency among far-right conservatives and supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump. Welch, who was 29 at the time of the shooting, received a four-year prison sentence in 2017 and will be released in March 2020. When he was convicted, the US attorney’s office stated that the judge declared that it was just “sheer luck” that no one was injured or killed.