ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Ken White and his wife were watching television, having just gotten a call from their son, Patrick, around 5 p.m.

“I asked him how he was doing,” Ken White recalled, “He said, ‘I’m gonna shoot up the CDC,’ and then he hung up.”

The couple changed their television channel to a local newscast, where Ken White saw the unmistakable image of his car at the scene of the Aug. 8, 2025, deadly shooting near the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control that would claim the life of a DeKalb County police officer.

The family’s horror would only increase as the hours unfolded. Law enforcement determined Patrick Joseph White , 30, was the shooter in an incident that claimed the life of David Rose. Patrick White himself took his own life in the aftermath.

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