A former Marine-turned-police officer, whom his mother called “fearless,” was killed as he confronted a gunman who attacked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month. Police officer David Rose, who spent four years in the Marine Corps, was shot while confronting a shooter who fired close to 500 rounds into labs and buildings at the nation’s top disease and vaccine research lab in Atlanta.

Rose died at nearby Emory University Hospital, where his mother said she had spent a career working as a nurse. The doctors and medical staff who worked to save him, Rose’s mother told local media, knew him personally.

“The same doctor that was working on him, he’s been to his house for Christmas parties,” Deveane Atkinson-Burnett, told local television stations. “People on

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