The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) identified the suspect in Friday's deadly shooting at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) headquarters as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White. The GBI provided no additional information when contacted by Newsweek on Saturday morning.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling fallen police officer David Rose a "hero" after a gunman attacked four CDC buildings on Aug. 8. That gunman has now been named by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation as Patrick Joseph White of Kennesaw,

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 obtained by 11Alive.