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.

Patrick Joseph White, 30, of Kennesaw, GA, was named as the suspect who police say opened fire at four CDC buildings in Atlanta and killed a DeKalb police officer. The suspect was named by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on Aug.

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,