The man who unleashed a hail of bullets on the Centers for Disease Control on Friday, killing a police officer, blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for his depression , authorities said Saturday.
Patrick White, 30, was found dead in a pharmacy across the street from CDC headquarters in Atlanta , where he had opened fire on the agency. Investigators said it wasn’t immediately clear if he shot himself to death or if bullets fired by responding cops killed him.
White blamed the COVID vaccine for his deteriorating mental health , according to law enforcement officials and his father.
“He was very unsettled, and he very deeply believed that vaccines hurt him and were hurting other people,” White’s neighbor, Nancy Hoalst, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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