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Dec 4 - Man With Gun Arrested at Comet Ping Pong
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A man armed with an assault rifle Sunday afternoon allegedly walked into a popular D.C. restaurant that recently fell victim to a fake news story.
Metropolitan Police told CBS affiliate WUSA reported that the man involved in the incident is in custody.
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Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Aquita Brown said police detained a 28-year-old man from Salisbury, North Carolina. The deputy mayor for public safety and justice said on Twitter the suspect has been identified as Edgar Maddison Welch, 28.
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Late last month, Comet Ping Pong was the subject of a fake news report. It is unclear if the incident is related.
As CBS affiliate WUSA reported previously, using the hashtag #PizzaGate, an imaginary story about the popular pizza shop was spread, accusing it to be the center of a child s3x slave ring organized by Hillary Clinton and her former campaign manager.
As a result, the pizza place was hammered by thousands of threats, and bizarre, unsubstantiated tales about child s3x trafficking.
WUSA reported that they found two women, who declined to give their names, banging on the patio at the pizza place in late November. The women were looking for the alleged tunnels used to traffic children.
“All of this is an underground tunnel that helps take the kids and tr@nsport them back and forth so they can can do these rituals,” said one of them. “They are putting a lot of curses and spells over the city. They are kidnapping the children who are missing. They were never missing because D.C. know where they are.”
Comet Ping Pong owner James Alefantis said then that the restaurant does not even have a basement.
He said he suspected the story simply emerged because he and a friend supported the Clinton campaign.
“These people are destroying their lives,” said neighbor Maura Dougherty about the conspiracy theorists. “It’s insane.”
Before the latest incident, Comet Ping Pong’s owner told WUSA that the PizzaGate conspirators have also harassed and abused his staff. The manager got so many threats and vulgar messages, his wife asked him to quit his job. And the online bullies have gone after other businesses on the block as well.
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↪ http://www.cbsnews.com/ne .. ficking-story/
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