Friday’s attack on the CDC offices was targeted and deliberate, CDC leaders tell staffers

On Saturday, a large and hurriedly arranged zoom call, US Disease Control and Prevention Centers and approximately 800 rattles employee opened fire on the streets of an armed man in front of the street, just the day before trying to understand the trauma they folded.

They were hugging for the weekend where he had shredd more than 40 bullets from the office windows, passing just over the cabin walls and shook at least four buildings.

However, Friday’s violence department is the last disturbing new section, which is a turbulent period for the CDC. Although the authorities did not explain a motive for shooting, law enforcement resources may have targeted the suspect’s CDC over the health problems he accused of COVID-19 vaccine.

CDC, one of the world’s leading health institutions, was assigned to protect the health of Americans. However, as the conspiracy theories continued to disturb the vaccine, which was credit, stopping the spread of global pandema, and entered under fire during the second Trump administration.

CDC leaders were targeted to attack on CDC offices, and deliberately said that the staff calls. Leadership may hear that employees’ work is targeted as a possible motivation for the shooter.

CDC Chief Medical Officer Debra Houly acknowledged whether the leaders were in the building, saying that the leaders were “madmen”.

Leaders, many of the agency’s national immunization and respiratory diseases, the staff working in the center, the attack, weeks before the incident, which reached mental health aid, but not named by a shooting of two sources that do not make any threats before the two sources, he said.

It is unclear who the suspect, who is described as 30 -year -old Patrick Joseph White, reached. The investigation leads to shooting continues.

‘This was not stray bullets’

The shooting started in front of the main entrance of the CDC just before 17.00 at the EMORY Point CVS pharmacy at Cliftton Road.

Armed man who looks like a surgical mask and has two pistols, one rifle, a shotgun and two backpacks full of ammunition at least four CDC buildings.

CDC leaders in his call on Saturday, two buildings at least 40 bullet holes and a few in a third building, he said. The buildings contain most of the laboratory works in CDC.

“This was not stray bullets,” he said, a leader said in a call from the authorities. CNN received copies of personnel notes from the meeting, which was shared in a large group of employees.

CDC employees said that they felt like “sitting ducks ında in their call on Saturday.

The photographs displayed by CNN from a CDC building depict the bullet holes in the windows and the glass shredded glass on the ground. The images show that ammunition tours fly just above an office cabins where employees live.

While the armed man fired at the CDC complex, David Rose ascended the Dekalb District Police Officer. According to a law enforcement source, the shooter turned his purpose from the CDC complex to the officer.

33 -year -old Rose was shot and then died in a hospital. Rose, a two -person married father and another on the road, would be at work for a year next month.

After a tense locked in the night, the armed man was shot with a gun fire and found dead on the second floor of the CVS store. The police could not say whether the gunshots came from the civil servants or the armed man.

Employees in CDC offices said the situation could be much worse.

“It is a miracle that no one is killed here,” he said to a CDC employee CNN.

Shooting, vaccine incorrect information and interrupted CDC financing

A law enforcement force told CNN, after talking to the family members, the police believe that he is sick or sick, and believes that he blames the disease over Covid-19.

The same week, the US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Covid vaccinations for a long time critic, history wear vaccine misinformation – announced The cancellation of half billion dollars for investments in MRNA projects.

HHS said it would cancel federal funds for about two dozen MRNA vaccine projects.

Kennedy said, “We were very upset about the tragic shooting on the Atlanta campus of CDC, who took the life of Officer David Rose. in question Saturday. “No one should face violence while working to protect the health of others.”

Health Secretary, “Public Health employees emerge every day for purpose – even in moments of grief and uncertainty,” he continued. “We honor their services. We stand with them. And we unite in our duty to protect and develop every American health.”

According to the personnel notes taken by CNN, when asked whether Kennedy talked about the shooting plan on Saturday, CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez said they were in contact with his office.

Monarez was also asked what the agency was planning to do to address disinformation, but the agency in the call did not respond directly.

Monarez reported that they would work remotely on Monday while a “security assessment” was made to CDC personnel via E -mail. Authorized, employee aid personnel were presented to the workers, he said.

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, CDC employees’ employment around the employment of the “uncertainty” around the employment of “last year,” he said.

The agency has lost about one quarter of its staff since January. The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year will reduce the agency’s financing more than half.

Within the scope of the proposed restructuring, CDC additional programs will lose. Some of them are transferred to a new administration for a healthy America, while others, such as the National Chronic Disease and Health Development Center, will be completely eliminated.

“My heart is going to you, Dic Dickens said. “We are with you. We are standing with you and we do everything we can to make sure we have solved the situation.”

Kathleen Magramo and Ray Sanchez from CNN contributed to this report.

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