A police officer has died from injuries sustained while responding to a shooting outside the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is near Emory University.<\/p>\n
The Atlanta police department said the incident, which took place on Friday, involved a “single shooter” who is now dead.<\/p>\n
Police identified the officer <\/a>killed as 33-year-old David Rose, who had two children with a third on the way, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reported<\/a>. He had been shot and taken to hospital, where he died of his injuries.<\/p>\n There have been no reports of any civilian injuries resulting from the shooting, Atlanta city mayor said.<\/p>\n US media, citing an unnamed law enforcement official, reported a theory that the alleged gunman believed he was sick as a result of a coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n Media reports also suggested the man’s father had called law enforcement on the day of the shooting believing his son was suicidal.<\/p>\n CDC Director Susan Monarez said the centre was “heartbroken” by the attack.<\/p>\n “A courageous local law enforcement officer gave his life, and another was injured, after a gunman opened fire on at least four CDC buildings,” she wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n “DeKalb County police, CDC security, and Emory University responded immediately and decisively, helping to prevent further harm to our staff and community.”<\/p>\n In a press briefing given on Friday, police said they became aware of a report of an active shooter at around 16:50 local time (21:50 BST) at a road intersection “immediately” in front of the CDC campus.<\/p>\n Officers from multiple agencies responded, including federal and state partners, police added.<\/p>\n Emory University posted at the time on social media: “Active shooter on Emory Atlanta Campus at Emory Point CVS. RUN, HIDE, FIGHT.” <\/p>\n The CDC campus received multiple rounds of gunfire into the buildings.<\/p>\n Police said they found the shooter “struck by gunfire” on the second floor of a CVS pharmacy by the intersection – but could not specify on Friday whether that was from law enforcement or self-inflicted.<\/p>\n A shelter-in-place was lifted around an hour and a half after the shooting was reported, according to CBS News.<\/p>\n The police department has since said there is “no ongoing threat” to the campus or surrounding neighbourhood.<\/p>\n Media outlets have reported that CDC employees have been asked to work remotely on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police officer has died from injuries sustained while responding to a shooting outside the headquarters of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-57015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}