The gunman in the Atlanta shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been named as Patrick Joseph White, 30, of Kennesaw, GA. Details about the shooter's family background and motive are still emerging.

The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with bullets piercing “blast-resistant” windows and spattering glass shards into numerous rooms,

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.