Investigators say that a small fire at Comet Ping Pong Pizza in Washington D.C., the site of a conspiracy theory-motivated shooting in 2016, was set intentionally and are hunting down the alleged arsonist.
According to a local Fox affiliate, employees were able to quell the blaze before firefighters arrived.
In December 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch stormed the shop with an AR-15 style rifle and fired off three shots due to a (fully debunked) conspiracy theory that then-candidate Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were running a child sex trafficking ring in the restaurant’s basement.