Cdc Shooter Died By Suicide And Fired Nearly 200 Rounds At Headquarters, Authorities Say

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said connected Tuesday that nan Georgia man who opened occurrence astatine nan U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office died by termination successful nan incident past week.

Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said astatine a Tuesday news convention that nan shooter, who authorities identified connected Saturday arsenic 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, "died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

"Evidence successful this arena indicates that nan shooter had precocious verbalized thoughts of suicide, which moreover led to rule enforcement being contacted respective weeks anterior to nan incident," Hosey said, flanked by a unit of different section officials.

Hosey added that White fired astir 200 rounds of ammunition that impacted six different buildings astatine nan headquarters, and that authorities recovered 5 guns from nan crime scene. He added that "over 500 ammunition casings" were recovered from nan crime scene.

The GIB head besides said that authorities recovered "written archiving that expressed nan shooter’s discontent pinch nan COVID-19 vaccinations" from White's home.

A neighbour of White's previously told NBC News that White expressed anti-vaccine sentiments to her connected aggregate occasions. It was besides previously reported that White blamed nan COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal.

If you aliases personification you cognize is successful crisis, telephone 988 to scope nan Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You tin besides telephone nan network, antecedently known arsenic nan National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, astatine 800-273-8255, matter HOME to 741741 aliases sojourn SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for further resources.