Besta Pizza was one of several businesses that got caught up in the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. (Photo by Julie Strupp)

A Louisiana man has pleaded guilty to phoning in threats to a pizzeria in Chevy Chase three days after a gunman showed up at Comet Ping Pong to investigate a non-existent child trafficking ring.

Yusif Lee Jones, a 52-year-old from Shreveport, was charged with one count of interstate threatening communications.

“I’m coming to finish what the other guy didn’t,” Jones said over the phone to an employee of Besta Pizza, according to prosecutors. “I’m coming there to save the kids, and then I’m going to shoot you and everyone in the place.”

Comet Ping Pong became the unlikely center of an online conspiracy theory last month, in which online sleuths grasped at seemingly anything and everything in John Podesta’s emails as “evidence” that the restaurant was harboring children in the basement (which doesn’t exist). According to a recent poll, nearly half of Donald Trump voters believe in “Pizzagate.”

Edgar Maddison Welch was charged with both federal and local crimes for allegedly bringing an assault-style rifle into the restaurant and firing multiple times.

In the spray of vitriol and threats lobbed at Comet, Besta Pizza was one of several neighboring businesses that got caught up in the fray. The Little Red Fox market and Politics and Prose also said they’d been on the receiving end of threats, and a number of bands that had played at the venue were attacked online.

“What [callers] said was they wanted to line us up in front of a firing squad and other stuff, calling us pedophiles,” Matt Carr, owner of neighboring restaurant Little Red Fox, told DCist during an event where Washingtonians came out to support Comet and the rest of the neighborhood.

“Obviously Comet Ping Pong was at the center of all of this but really most of the businesses in this block have been affected one way or the other,” said Jon Purves, director of marketing at Politics and Prose.

When investigators called the number from Besta Pizza’s caller ID, Jones initially denied he made the call before admitting fault.

“I made the call. I flipped out. I know what I did is wrong. I got a grandchild,” he told an investigator, according to charging documents. “I googled the number from my phone.”