A gunman opens fire outside the CDC, killing a DeKalb police officer and striking four campus buildings

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 07:00:00 -0400

A gunman opened fire outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday afternoon, killing a DeKalb County Police Department officer who was responding to the scene and pockmarking windows on four CDC buildings along Clifton Road. The shooter died at the scene.

The attack began at about 4:50 p.m., according to Atlanta police, when 911 calls started coming in from the area around the CDC’s Roybal Campus at 1600 Clifton Road. Within minutes, hundreds of CDC employees and Emory University students and staff were sheltering in place.

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A gunman opens fire outside the CDC, killing a DeKalb police officer and striking four campus buildings