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The Guardian - US
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Anna Betts

Father of CDC shooter says son believed Covid vaccine had sickened him

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Mourners at a memorial for slain police officer David Rose outside the CDC’s headquarters after a shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, on 13 August. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

The father of the man who opened fire outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta earlier in August has said that his son was grappling with untreated mental health issues when misinformation convinced him that the Covid-19 vaccine was lethally sickening him.

“I know my son wanted to make this about ‘the jab’, and that was his latest cause, but this is more about mental health than anything,” Ken White said in a new interview with Atlanta News First.

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