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Suspect named in deadly CDC Atlanta shooting; more details

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ATLANTA — A 30-year-old man has been identified as the suspect in the shooting outside Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) building in Atlanta that left a DeKalb County police officer dead on Friday.

The incident ended with he active shooter also dead, though details of the accused shooter's death were not released. 

The incident began around 4:50 p.m. Friday, Aug. 8, when reports came in of an active shooter near the CDC Atlanta campus and Emory Point shopping area.

According to DeKalb County officials, Officer David Rose was the first to respond to the Atlanta shooting. He encountered the gunman near the CDC’s Roybal Campus and came under immediate fire. Rose was fatally wounded. Another officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Suspected gunman in CDC shooting had grievance toward Covid vaccine: Sources

The man suspected of opening fire on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's sprawling campus late Friday had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him sick and depressed, according to information gathered by law enforcement and sources close to the suspect.

The investigation remains ongoing, and officials caution that the information is preliminary at this time.

Patrick White is believed to have struggled with his mental health, according to that information. As he grappled with those issues, sources said, White had become increasingly fixated on the COVID-19 vaccine as a source of his grievances.

Several Kennesaw residents who knew the 30-year-old suspected shooter told ABC News they had heard White express similar angry and conspiracy-minded sentiments.

Friday’s attack on the CDC offices was targeted and deliberate, CDC leaders tell staffers

In a large and hastily arranged Zoom call on Saturday, about 800 rattled staffers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tried to make sense of the trauma they endured just a day earlier when a gunman opened fire on the agency’s buildings from across the street.

They had been winding down for the weekend when more than 40 bullets smashed through their office windows, whizzing just over their cubicle walls and petrifying staffers in at least four buildings.

But Friday’s violent episode is the latest unsettling new chapter in what has been a turbulent period for the CDC. While authorities have not announced a motive for the shooting, law enforcement sources say the suspect may have targeted the CDC over health concerns he blamed on the Covid-19 vaccine.

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