U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. flew to Atlanta on Monday, days after a shooter targeted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Channel 2 Action News cameras spotted a motorcade arriving at the CDC campus on Clifton Road. ABC News confirmed that Kennedy, whose department oversees the CDC, was inside the motorcade.
CDC employees will teleworking today, Aug. 11, as a security assessment is made at the campus following Friday’s shooting incident.
The CDC reported Monday that the suspect – Patrick Joseph White – fired nearly 200 rounds breaking 150 windows in four different buildings at its headquarters adjacent to Emory University on Clifton Road.
While authorities have not announced a motive for the shooting, sources told CNN that White, 30, may have targeted the CDC campus over health concerns he blamed on the COVID-19 vaccine.
DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was fatally shot when he responded to the shooting. Rose, a Marine veteran who had only been on the force for six months, leaves behind a wife, two children, and another child on the way, DeKalb CEO Loraine Cochran-Johnson said in a Friday night press conference.
A memorial continued to grow on Sunday afternoon at the entrance to CDC headquarters on Clifton Road.
A steady stream of people stopped to leave their condolences to Rose on a sign, while others left flowers and notes. A GoFundMe account set up to collect donations for Rose’s family has raised nearly $300,000.
There were also notes in support of CDC staff, which has seen its staff cut by half and funding and programs decimated by the Trump administration’s budget plan.
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