Overview

• Authorities confirmed the shooter was Patrick Joseph White, who died by a self-inflicted gunshot after killing a DeKalb County police officer on the CDC campus
• Georgia investigators seized five firearms—including one taken from a locked family safe—and recovered over 500 shell casings at the scene
• Documents and electronic devices recovered from White’s home express opposition to COVID-19 vaccines and are undergoing detailed forensic examination
• Police had been alerted weeks earlier when White verbalized suicidal thoughts, and his family is cooperating fully with the ongoing probe
• Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other federal officials toured the damaged campus as CDC staff and unions call for strengthened security and improved threat notifications