The gunman who rampaged at Emory University in Georgia, near a building of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, may have been acting out of revenge for what he believed was an injury from the COVID vaccine, CNN's Ryan Young reported Friday evening.

The shooting, which left a police officer dead, is the latest in a series of lethal firearm incidents around the country this year, which also included a mass shooting at a bar in Montana and a mass shooting in New York City that appeared to target the headquarters of the NFL.

"Ryan, what more are we learning about potential motive here?" asked anchor Jim Sciutto.

"We know that the news conference should start in the next 10 to 15 minutes or so, but we do have that new reporting from John Miller. I'm going to read this to make sure I get it correct: 'The law enforcement official tells John Miller that after speaking with family members, police are operating under the theory that the shooter either was sick or believed that he was sick, and blamed the illness on the COVID vaccine.' So you understand why he may have been targeting the CDC."

Additionally, he continued, "people around that area believe they saw that gun being pointed toward that building. That goes along with the reporting that we had earlier. And, of course, I told you about sources telling me we needed to be here around 4:50 because they believe someone was trying to attack the CDC."

"This person, of course, according to the folks who were outside the CVS, was standing there with what looked like a long rifle dressed in black, firing toward that building," Young said. "We have that video that you played at the top of this show where you can hear shot after shot, people saying they heard as many as 30 shots. We believe at that point, a DeKalb County police officer engaged with the shooter. That officer was shot. We know the suspect was taken down and killed."

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