ATLANTA — A suspected shooter near the campuses of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University is dead and one law enforcement officer is injured after police responded to reports of an active shooter Friday, authorities said.

Police did not specify whether other people were injured. Authorities said there was no longer a threat to the public. Emory University announced in a post on X that the shelter-in-place order on campus had been lifted, but asked people to avoid the area.

Staff at a nearby deli said they heard what sounded like a string of gunshots. CDC employees said bullets struck the windows of several buildings on their campus.

Brandy Giraldo, the chief operating officer of the deli General Muir’s, said “it sounded like fireworks going off, one rig

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