All was quiet Saturday morning at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Just hours after a gunman opened fire on the CDC and nearby CVS and killed a DeKalb County police officer, many of the nearby businesses were reopened.

By Saturday morning, the crowd that had flooded Clifton Road on Friday — when SWAT teams, U.S. marshals and hundreds of police cars from multiple counties surrounded the CDC and Emory University campus — had vanished entirely.

Emory University lifted its emergency at 7:38 a.m. Saturday.

A few security guards roamed the CDC entrance. A private security guard circled the Emory Point shopping center where the gunman had shot into the CVS.

A few signs of Friday’s tragedy remained. The door of the CVS was marked with two bullet holes and bright yellow signs re

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