ATLANTA ( WANF /Gray News) - The police officer killed in the shooting near the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters was a former Marine whose wife was expecting their third child.

David Rose, a 33-year-old DeKalb County police officer, was killed on Aug. 8 while responding to a shooting on Emory University’s Atlanta campus, across the street from the CDC headquarters.

“This evening there’s a wife without a husband, three children — one unborn — without a father, and a mother and father as well as siblings who also share in this traumatic loss," DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson said in a statement.

According to a statement from DeKalb County , Rose and his wife were expecting their third child later this year.

Rose had been with the department for 1

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