This is NBC Nightly News with Jose Diaz Ballard.

Good evening. I'm Gotti Schwartz in for Jose tonight, and we start with new questions from that deadly shooting in Atlanta.

This was the scene near the CDC and Emory University, a massive law enforcement response to that rampage, which caused damage like this.

Look at those bullet holes in the CDC's windows. And here with the pharmacy across

the street, one officer struck in that attack. DeKob County Police Officer David Rose, just 33 years old,

leaving behind a wife and two kids with another on the way. Police also identifying the suspect,

30-year-old Patrick Joseph White. Now the investigation is focusing on the

motive, a neighbor telling our team today that White repeatedly expressed anti-vaccine views.

Priya Shrether has the latest from Atlanta.

Tonight, officials in Georgia releasing new information about that deadly shooting near the CDC and Emory University in Atlanta,

the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identifying 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White as the suspected shooter.

All right to see your response.

White lived at this home about 30 miles away from where the shooting took place.

A neighbor who says she knew him well, but didn't want to be identified, telling NBC News,

White had expressed anti-vaccine sentiments to her on multiple occasions and that he told her he

believed the COVID vaccine made him sick.

Other neighbors say they're completely shocked. I didn't think that it would

be someone down the street. It's very unnerving. The shooting broke out around 5 p.m. Friday,

sending both the CDC and Emory University into lockdown for several hours. Officials say police heard gunfire inside a

CVS pharmacy and that several rounds went into the CDC nearby. Authorities later finding

White on the second floor of the CVS building with a gunshot wound. It's unclear if it was

self-inflicted or from police. He died at the scene

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