By Michelle Ndaga.
A police officer has been shot dead while responding to a gunman outside the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, near Emory University.
Officer David Rose, 33, a father of two with another child on the way, was hit during Friday’s incident and later died in hospital. No civilians were injured.
Police say the “single shooter” was found dead inside a nearby pharmacy. US media report the suspect’s father had earlier called authorities, fearing his son was suicidal, and that the man believed he was sick from a COVID-19 vaccine. CDC Director Susan Monarez said several of the agency’s buildings were struck by gunfire but credited officers for preventing further harm. The incident prompted a campus lockdown, later lifted, with CDC staff told to work remotely on Monday.
