{"id":131892,"date":"2025-08-09T14:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131892\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T14:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T14:13:17","slug":"police-officer-dies-after-shooting-near-uss-cdc-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131892\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer dies after shooting near US’s CDC headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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) in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The incident, which took place on Friday near Emory University, involved a “single shooter” who is now dead, the Atlanta police department said.<\/p>\n

It said the officer<\/a>, David Rose, had been taken to hospital and later died from his injuries. No civilian was wounded in the incident.<\/p>\n

The motive is unclear, but US media, citing an unnamed law-enforcement official, reported a theory that the gunman believed he was sick as a result of a coronavirus vaccine.<\/p>\n

Media reports also suggested the man’s father had called police 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

“DeKalb County police, CDC security, and Emory University responded immediately and decisively, helping to prevent further harm to our staff and community,” she wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n

In a press briefing on Friday, police said they became aware of a report of an active shooter at around 16:50 local time (21:50 BST) near the CDC campus.<\/p>\n

Officers from multiple agencies responded. 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 buildings.<\/p>\n

Police said they found the shooter “struck by gunfire” – but could not specify whether that was from law enforcement or self-inflicted.<\/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":3,"featured_media":131893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-131892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114999224390529565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}