The gunman who opened fire at the Atlanta headquarters for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into his father’s safe to get the five firearms he brought to the scene of last Friday’s shooting, state investigators said.

The shooter – previously identified as Patrick Joseph White – fired nearly 500 rounds during the shooting, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said at a news conference Tuesday. Most of the shell casings found at the scene were from a long gun, one of the weapons White took from his father.

White – who GBI Director Chris Hosey confirmed died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound – had expressed discontent with the Covid-19 vaccine in written documents recovered from his home. White “wanted to make the public aware of his public distrust of the vaccines,”

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