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'Pizzagate' Shooter Receives His Sentence

A man who drove all the way from North Carolina to Washington DC and opened fire inside a pizza restaurant because of an internet conspiracy theory was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday, the BBC reports. 

According to WTOP, 28-year-old Edgar Welch, a father of two, had watched hours of YouTube videos about "Pizzagate," which claimed a child sex ring connected to Hillary Clinton was being run out of Comet Ping Pong. 

Police and the FBI have said there is absolutely no truth to the conspiracy theory, NBC News reports. Regardless, Welch brought a rifle and pistol into the restaurant in what prosecutors called an "armed invasion" and shot into a locked cabinet where he thought children were being kept.

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