CDC shooter Patrick Joseph White’s dad repeatedly called 911 fearing he was gunman



The father of the anti-vaxxer gunman who killed a cop when he fired more than 180 shots at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention repeatedly called 911 fearing that his son was responsible for the attack, newly released 911 calls show.

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.

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“I’m very worried that he might have been involved in this shooting today,” the dad said in one call.

Documents found in a search of the home where CDC shooter Patrick Joseph Smith lived with his parents revealed his discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations. AP

“I can’t get any information from anybody. I’ve called the DeKalb County 911 number three times and left detailed information, and no one ever called us back. I don’t know if he was involved. I need some help.”

In another call, the dad specifically asked for one officer to call back given he’d helped with his son in the past.

“He has been involved last summer with some problems we had with my adult son,” the elder White said of the cop. “[The officer] had left me his name and number and said if you guys need anything with Patrick, give me a call.”

Records show there had been at least 10 emergency calls made from the White family home over the last two years, including for suicide threats and domestic disturbances.

Patrick Joseph Smith fired more than 180 shots into the CDC campus in Atlanta and broke 150 windows on Friday. AP

It wasn’t immediately clear if authorities returned the calls from White’s dad during Friday’s incident.

The shooter, who authorities said blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound shortly after his rampage.

Investigators said White had broken into a locked safe to get his father’s weapons before he stormed the CDC’s headquarters.

CDC security guards had initially stopped White from driving into the campus Friday — so he parked near a pharmacy across the street and opened fire from the sidewalk, authorities said.

Police vehicles near Emory University and the CDC campus in Atlanta after the shooting on Aug. 8, 2025. Getty Images

His bullets broke about 150 “blast-resistant” windows across the campus.

DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was fatally shot while responding to the rampage, according to investigators.

No one inside the CDC building was injured.

In the aftermath, a search warrant at White’s home uncovered a slew of written documents and electronic devices that are still being analyzed. 

Some of the materials “expressed the shooter’s discontent with the COVID-19 vaccinations” and his desire to make “the public aware of his discontent with the vaccine,” Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Chris Hosey said.

With Post wires


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