Welch told police he had read online that the Comet restaurant was harboring child sex slaves and that he wanted to see for himself if they were there [REF].
On January 12, 2017, a Louisiana man, Yusif Lee Jones, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to making a threatening phone call three days after Welch's attack, to Besta Pizza, another pizzeria on the same block as Comet Ping Pong.