Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines, authorities say Nation Aug 12, 2025 12:32 PM EDT

ATLANTA (AP) — The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father’s weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.

Documents found in a search of the home where Patrick Joseph White lived with his parents “expressed the shooter’s discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said.

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White, 30, had written about wanting to make “the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine,” Hosey said.

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