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CDC leaders call shooting targeted and deliberate as rattled staff say they felt like 'sitting ducks'

By CNN.com  
   August 11, 2025

In a large and hastily arranged Zoom call on Saturday, about 800 rattled staffers with the CDC tried to make sense of the trauma they endured just a day earlier when a gunman opened fire on the agency's buildings from across the street. They had been winding down for the weekend when more than 40 bullets smashed through their office windows, whizzing just over their cubicle walls and petrifying staffers in at least four buildings

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