CDC security guards stopped White from driving into the campus on Friday before he parked near a pharmacy across the street and opened fire from a sidewalk. The bullets pierced “blast-resistant” windows across the campus, pinning employees down during the barrage.

Authorities also confirmed that they had recovered "written documentation that expressed the shooter’s discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations."

Patrick Joseph White, 30, of Kennesaw, Georgia, has been identified as the suspected shooter in the incident, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. He died during the incident.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has visited the CDC headquarters in Atlanta where a police officer was killed in a shooting that is believed to have targeted the national public health agency.

An alleged gunman who opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters late last week blamed his declining health and depression on the COVID-19 vaccine, according to documents recovered by investigators.

A police officer has died from injuries sustained while responding to a shooting outside the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is near Emory University. The Atlanta police department said the incident, which took place on Friday, involved a "single shooter" who is now dead.

Posts are claiming police identified the shooter who killed an officer near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia as Silas Kruger. But investigators named 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White from nearby Kennesaw as the suspect and said he died in the attack;

The man suspected of opening fire on CDC buildings in Atlanta had interacted with police after expressing thoughts of suicide, officials said.

Documents from the shooter’s home showed his discontent with coronavirus vaccines, authorities said. CDC workers want RFK Jr. to denounce vaccine misinformation.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Grappling with the aftermath of a shooting that killed a police officer and left nearly 100 shattered windows, leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held virtual meetings with employees on Tuesday to rebuild trust at the agency's Atlanta headquarters.