ATLANTA — (TNS) He fired upwards of 500 shots, fatally striking a police officer, shattering glass and damaging buildings Friday afternoon at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Then, Patrick Joseph White turned one of the guns on himself, investigators said Tuesday. White, 30, had broken into his father’s gun cabinet and left the family’s Kennesaw-area home with five weapons, including rifles, a shotgun and a handgun.

Both the GBI director and Atlanta FBI’s special agent in charge provided more updates Tuesday on the incident that locked down the CDC, Emory University and nearby Emory Hospital and sent hundreds of people scrambling for safety. But first, they offered condolences for the slain officer.

“Our hearts and prayer

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