Anyone notice how often they call him "MADISON WELCH?": What family talks this way about their loved one? Obviously, the media are DRIVING THIS POINT HOME.

Edgar Madison Welch

Maddison Welch, who goes by his middle name,

"But his parents said they noticed a change in his personality after a car crash in October. Maddison Welch was driving to work at the Food Lion warehouse one evening when he hit a 13-year-old boy, who had to be airlifted to a hospital with broken bones and a head injury. No charges were filed in the crash. The Welches and Tajuana Tadlock, Terri Welch’s sister, said that Maddison Welch who hopes to become an emergency medical technician, stayed with the teen until help arrived.

Their son felt a lot of guilt about it and worried about the long-term effects for the child, they said. They said Maddison Welch**** began having nightmares but declined to seek help.

Sitting in the offices of the D.C. Public Defender Service, the Welches said that their son had never shown much interest in politics, and that he did not vote in the presidential election.

Maddison Welch had expressed enthusiasm online for some websites that spread conspiracy theories, apocalyptic topics and fake news on his Facebook page.

He didn’t talk about that with his parents, who live at the other end of a long driveway in rural Salisbury, N.C., they said; all they knew was that he sometimes played video games and watched movies online.

Interviews with friends and North Carolina court records suggest that Maddison Welch has had trouble with alcohol and drugs in the past.