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

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.

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.

Four CDC workers, who were not authorized to speak publicly, told CBS News under the condition of anonymity that they were "deeply disappointed and frustrated" by an apparent lack of leadership following Friday's shooting​.

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.

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.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the agency’s more than 10,000 staff would work remotely on Monday.

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 shooter, identified by authorities as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, "died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound," the bureau's director, Chris Hosey, said Tuesday at a news conference.

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

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.