However, according to Nancy Hoalst, who lives right across the street from White’s family, something seemed to change in recent months. She claimed that even in completely unrelated informal chats, White frequently brought up his mistrust of vaccines.
He was really uneasy and firmly felt that immunizations were harming both him and other people. “Hoalst said.” That was what he firmly thought.
Credit: AJC/HYOSUB SHIN
Credit: AJC/HYOSUB SHIN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was not contacted by a guy who answered the door at White’s reported address on Saturday.
A copy of Saturday’s newspaper, which included an article on the CDC shooting on the top page, was left unattended in the center of the driveway.
Having lived in the area for almost five years, Hoalst said she has always known White to be amiable. Before Halloween when the trick-or-treaters arrived, he would blow the leaves off her driveway and grass in the fall.
She stated he appeared like a good man. He would offer to take pets on walks. He took good action.
Hoalst claimed that although he appeared somewhat strange, she had never encountered any aggressive behavior from her neighbor.
She said, “I had no idea he had those tendencies.” I was unaware that he believed he would vent his frustration on the CDC.
When a SWAT squad arrived on their peaceful street late Friday night and spent almost four hours at White’s house, other neighbors claimed they were also taken aback.
Josh Shirah, 22, who grew up on White’s cul-de-sac, said, “I always thought he was a pretty stand-up guy, quiet, but never confrontational.” I had never been concerned that he might do this.
According to Shirah, he frequently saw White mowing other neighbors’ lawns with his lawnmower.
Shirah uttered White, who lived with both parents, never seemed to have many friends and didn’t talk about much. However, he claimed that nothing about his neighbor ever caused him to suspect anything.
Shirah, who was astonished to learn that his neighbor was mentioned as a suspect in Friday’s shooting, claimed the two never talked about vaccines.
Credit: AJC/HYOSUB SHIN
Credit: AJC/HYOSUB SHIN
About a month ago, in their west Cobb neighborhood, White and another of his neighbors had an odd experience.
Nick Shatus told the AJC that White rang their Ring doorbell and was attempting to communicate with them when he was heading home with his parents after visiting his sister in Alabama.
Shatus, 26, claimed that due to bad cell coverage, he was unable to follow White’s words on the Ring.
Shatus stated that he and his mother wanted to ask White what he had been attempting to explain to them when they arrived home in a few hours.
Since we don’t communicate with him and he was at our house, we assumed it was an emergency, Shatus added.
Outside a house across the street, they discovered White and his small white dog standing behind a fig tree. Shatus claimed that White looked inebriated and that he could smell alcohol.
We’ve never heard bats inside the house, so it’s strange that White told them he had been working at another neighbor’s house and heard them in our attic, Shatus added. We said, “Well, thanks for informing us.”
Shatus claimed that although he frequently saw White walking his dog around the neighborhood, that was the only occasion he ever spoke to White.
Shatus claimed that aside from the day we discovered him behind the bush, he didn’t really act unusual.
Reports that the man’s attack in front of the CDC headquarters was sparked by problems with the COVID-19 vaccine have not been verified by authorities. The man’s father had called police earlier Friday, claiming his son was suicidal, according to the New York Times.
The GBI declined to comment after the FBI forwarded all of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s inquiries to them.
An inquiry by the AJC regarding the motivation was not immediately answered by the White House.
This article was reported by Charles Minshew and Jozsef Papp-Chang.
