Nigel Edge, the man accused of a fatal mass shooting at a North Carolina restaurant on Saturday night (September 27), once accompanied American Idol star Kellie Pickler to the CMT Music Awards and recently filed a lawsuit against her for allegedly trying to kill him at the event.

North Carolina authorities arrested Edge on Saturday after he was alleged to have opened fire at the American Fish Company restaurant in Southport Yacht Basin, killing three people and injuring five others. Per the New York Post, law enforcement sources said Edge, a former Marine, suffers from PTSD and believes several Q-Anon conspiracy theories.

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