Edgar Maddison Welch of North Carolina, better known as “the Pizzagate gunman” was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of probation on Thursday, the New York Times reports. Welch was also ordered to pay $5,744 in restitution to fix up the pizzeria he wrecked because he thought he’d find illegal sex stuff there.
On December 4, 2016, Welch drove from his hometown of Salisbury, North Carolina to Washington pizzeria Comet Ping Pong, investigating a conspiracy theory, known as “Pizzagate,” that the Italian restaurant was a front for a child sex-slave ring run by Hillary Clinton. Welch stormed into the restaurant wielding three guns, firing a military-style assault rifle, and understandably scaring the shit out of a bunch of patrons and employees. No one was physically hurt, but the Associated Press reported that U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said during the sentencing hearing that the incident, “literally left psychological wreckage.”