Law enforcement is seen near the CDC headquarters during an incident where a police officer was injured and later died at a hospital. The shooter was also dead.
Mandatory Credit:	Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

Law enforcement is seen near the CDC headquarters during an incident where a police officer was injured and later died at a hospital. The shooter was also dead.
Mandatory Credit: Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

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Gunman in CDC shooting identified as staffers reel from attack on heavily scrutinized agency

Employees at the top US public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were winding down their Friday when bullets smashed through their office windows, whizzing just over their cubicle walls. Inside the buildings, CDC employees felt like “sitting ducks,” some would later say in a meeting.