ATLANTA (AP) — Investigators identified a 30-year-old man from suburban Atlanta on Saturday as the person who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a police officer and spreading panic through the health agency and nearby Emory University.

Kenneth White had begged authorities for help as his son, Patrick Joseph White, was unleashing his reign of terror on the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters last Friday, according to transcripts

The man who opened fire at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters last week, killing a police officer, died by suicide.

CDC security guards stopped White from driving into the campus on Friday before he parked near a pharmacy across the street and opened fire from a sidewalk. The bullets pierced “blast-resistant” windows across the campus, pinning employees down during the barrage.

David Rose spent four years in the Marines before becoming a police office near Atlanta. He was killed by a gunman obsessed with vaccine conspiracies.

GBI Director Chris Hosey told reporters the shooter, 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, was armed with five firearms that belonged to his father. The shooter had no known prior criminal history.

A Georgia man who had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal has been identified as the shooter who opened fire late Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters,

Channel 2’s Brittany Kleinpeter obtained a CDC alert sent to employees, which said staff who work in buildings 16,18, 21, and 24 on the Roybal campus in Atlanta will continue to work remotely beginning Aug. 18 - 22, with the exception of critical workers like lab and animal care staff.

The employee wants people to hear what she experienced, hoping to spark conversations about preventing this in the future and stopping vaccine misinformation.