ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - David Rose woke up on Friday, Aug. 8, as he had done for the past 11 months — to honor the badge and serve the DeKalb County community. But this time, he didn’t get to go home to his wife and children.

Rose, 33, was killed in the line of duty while responding to a call involving a reported gunman near Clifton Road and CDC Parkway on Emory University’s Atlanta campus.

“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.

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Rose joined the DeKalb County Police Academy in September 2024 and graduated fro

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