CDC shooter was upset about COVID vaccines, Georgia authorities say

The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a safe to get his father's weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.

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PEOPLE visit a makeshift memorial in honor of David Rose, the officer who was killed in Friday's shooting.

Documents found in a search of the suspect's home "expressed the shooter's discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations," Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said. The suspect had written about wanting to make "the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine," he said.

Patrick Joseph White, 30, also had recently verbalized thoughts of suicide, which led to law enforcement being contacted several weeks before the shooting, Hosey said. He died at the scene Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer.

His family was fully cooperating with the investigation, authorities said at the Tuesday news briefing. White had no known criminal history, Hosey said.