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 (GBI) director Chris Hosey said.

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

White had also recently verbalised thoughts of suicide, which led to law enforcement being contacted several weeks before the shooting,Mr Hosey added.

He died at the scene on Friday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after killing a police officer.

Asked about threats based on misinformation regarding the CDC and its vaccine work, FBI special agent Paul Brown said on Tuesday: “We’ve not seen an uptick, although any rhetoric that suggests or leads to vi

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