CHARLOTTE KRAMON AND JEFF MARTIN

Associated Press

ATLANTA

ATLANTA — 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.

White, 30, wrote about wanting to make "the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine," Hosey added.

White also recently verbalized thoughts of suicide, which led to law enforcement being contacted several weeks before the shooting, Hosey

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