by Brian Lupo, The Gateway Pundit:
The Kannapolis Police Department issued a news release on Thursday announcing that Edgar Maddison Welch was shot to death by police during a traffic stop on Saturday evening.
According to the release on the Kannapolis Fire and Police Facebook page, sometime around 10pm on January 4th, a Kannapolis Police Officer saw a 2001 GMC Yukon and recognized the vehicle “as one normally driven by an individual who he had previously arrested and knew had an outstanding warrant for arrest.” The warrant was reportedly for Felony Probation Violation.
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No other cause for initiating the traffic stop was given.
As the initiating officer was speaking with the driver, two additional officers arrived on scene. The initiating officer recognized the passenger as the individual with the outstanding warrant. According to the news release:
The officer who initiated the traffic stop approached the passenger side of the vehicle and opened the front passenger’s door to arrest the individual. When he opened the door, the front seat passenger pulled a handgun from his jacket and pointed it in the direction of the officer. That officer and a second officer who was standing at the rear passenger side of the Yukon gave commands for the passenger to drop the gun. After the passenger failed to comply with their repeated requests, both officers fired their duty weapon at the passenger, striking him.
Welch was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries on January 6th. The officers who fired their service weapons were placed on administrative leave, as is standard protocol, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting.
Edgar Maddison Welch was sentenced to four years in prison in June 2017 for an incident involving an AR-15 rifle and a revolver. Welch fired into a door of a Northwest Washington DC pizza restaurant, sending employees and customers scattering, according to a Department of Justice release in 2017.
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