CDC shooter
Shots were fired toward CDC headquarters on the campus of Emory, a police officer has been killed, and the shooter is also dead either from police fire or a self-inflicted wound. Some details:
The deranged man who fatally shot a cop at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters has been identified by Georgia authorities as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White.
White, of Kennesaw, Georgia, unleashed a barrage of bullets on the health agency before storming into a CVS located on the Emory University campus in Atlanta around 4:50 p.m. Friday, the police department said.
Dekalb County police officer David Rose, 33, was reportedly struck and killed while responding to reports of the active shooter at the Clifton Road drugstore, which is located across the street from the CDC’s main campus.
Rose – a heroic officer who joined the department in September 2024 – was rushed to Emory University Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.
The gunman was also found shot at the scene, though authorities have not said if his fatal wound was self-inflicted.
RIP Officer Rose.
It’s reported that the killer was despondent over an illness or supposed illness he ascribed to the COVID vaccine. It occurs to me that this shooting motive is somewhat similar to the recent murders in New York in which the killer supposedly felt he’d been injured by playing football, and tried to target NFL headquarters (although he got off the elevator at the wrong floor). Is this a new pattern?
In both cases there appears to have been some history of mental troubles, if this report (in, of all places, the Hindustan Times) is correct. It says the following:
The shooter who opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday afternoon was suicidal, the father of the suspect revealed to law enforcement. CNN reported, citing an unidentified law enforcement official, that the suspect’s father said he alerted law enforcement about his son’s condition a day before the shooting.
There’s no link to CNN provided, and I can’t find the original article or interview.
NOTE: I’ve written many many times about the COVID vaccine; you can find my most recent post on the subject here.
So, another shooter with a history of mental troubles. I wonder if “Luigiism” on social media has something to do with these outbreaks.
Kate:
I think it does.
Apparently that’s a very dangerous vaccine!
Unfortunately, the covid vaccine has become a case of right-wing nuttery, matching (albeit on smaller scale) the Left’s fantasy lunacies over climate change or Iraq.
Not that there are not legit concerns over them. They were hastily developed, under-tested, and vastly overhyped in service of the covid hysteria. People were forced to take them in response to a disease that was not bad enough to justify it.
But to hear some otherwise sensible right wingers talk, the shots poisoned half the population and every death before age 80 is linked to them.
This sort of hysterical nonsense is just as bad when our side indulges in it.
There’s finally a photograph of Patrick Joseph White:
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/gbi-releases-photo-suspected-gunman-cdc-attack/ZIPSGVBELJEPJNTAVGZPYUS3SM/
I am curious why this has taken so long. After learning the shooter came from a pretty nice neighborhood and the Covid vaxx motive is not woke, I figured he was probably white.
Some leftist commenters opined that of course, if they were holding back his race, he must be white.
My anecdotal impression is that correlation usually goes the other way.