Authorities have identified the man behind a deadly shooting near the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta — a tragedy that claimed the life of a DeKalb County police officer.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation named Patrick Joseph White, 30, of Kennesaw, Ga., as the suspected shooter in the Friday, Aug. 8 attack near Emory University. White was killed during the incident, along with Officer David Rose, 33, who succumbed to gunshot wounds after being critically injured at the scene.
White’s neighbors say his distrust of vaccines may have played a role in the violence. Nancy Hoalst, who had lived near him for about five years, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that White had grown increasingly vocal about his belief that vaccines had harmed him and others…