A person opened fire Friday outside the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, killing one police officer and striking the exterior of buildings on the CDC campus, authorities said.

The shooting suspect was found fatally shot, but there were “no civilian casualties,” officials said.

Officials reported an active shooter just before 5 p.m. at a CVS drugstore on Clifton Road, which is directly across from the main entrance of the CDC headquarters. Officers found the suspect on the second floor of the CVS, but it was unclear if the person had been struck in an exchange of gunfire with the police or the gunshot was self-inflicted, Chief Darin Schierbaum of the Atlanta Police Department said at a news conference Friday evening.

Schierbaum said investigators

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