Law enforcement officers remember police officer killed in CDC shooting in Atlanta

DUNWOODY, Ga. (AP) — DeKalb County Police Sgt. Tre Jones knew he would pick David Rose to lead his police academy class on day one, a decision that usually takes four to six weeks to make.

What he didn't know about were Rose's swift moves on the basketball court. But he would soon see them in action at a local church's court while Rose's wife and kids cheered him on from the bleachers.

Weeks after he was killed in the Aug. 8 shooting at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, law enforcement colleagues described Rose as a courageous leader who put his family above all else at a memorial service Friday at a church north of Atlanta.

"Without question, he was the finest I ever had the pleasure of training," Jones said. “He was unshakable. His attitude toward the process never wavered. From Day 1 one to graduation, he remained mentally tough, respectful, and fully committed. He welcomed adversity not with resistance, but with that trademark grin.”

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from DeKalb County and the surrounding region filled the church. CDC employees also attended. Local officials and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp attended. Rose's young daughter leaned on his wife's shoulder with blue bows in her hair and a shirt that said, “My daddy is my hero.”

Patrick Joseph White fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the CDC headquarters. Investigators learned White wanted to make public his disdain for vaccines.

The shooting reflects the dangers public health leaders have been experiencing around the country since anti-vaccine vitriol spread after the pandemic. Such rhetoric has been amplified as President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has repeatedly made false and misleading statements about the safety of immunizations.

Rose, a 33-year-old former U.S. Marine, was shot by White when responding to the shooting. He graduated from the police academy in March.

Attendees throughout the vast sanctuary sniffled as a video played showing photos of Rose with his family and from when he was a child. Interspersed were photos of him training to be a police officer and in military attire.

There were three things Rose regularly talked about, Jones said: Food, his motorcycle and his wife and children, the latter with a wide grin.

DeKalb County police officer Tahlia Cruz said Rose smiled as she recalled the time they played rapper GloRilla too loudly in a van.

She added Rose always encouraged people to “raise their game."

“Off the field, he was quiet, humble and never stopped up smiling,” Cruz said. “He had a way of putting others first, often sacrificing his own comfort so someone else could have theirs. And when you needed guidance, he was the one to turn to.”

When he wasn't with his family, Cruz said Rose found peace cruising down open roads on his motorcycle.

DeKalb interim police Chief Gregory Padrick read Rose's words from his police graduation, where he called on his colleagues to be the person "who runs toward danger when others run away.”

Kramon is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.

The mother of DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose is emotional during his funeral service at First Baptist Church Atlanta in Atlanta, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Rose was killed while responding to a shooting at the CDC. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

An attendee holds a program for the funeral of DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose, who was killed while responding to a shooting at the CDC, at First Baptist Church Atlanta, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Atlanta. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Law enforcement officers march during the funeral of DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose, who was killed while responding to a shooting at the CDC, at First Baptist Church Atlanta, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Atlanta. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Family members, including DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose's daughter, right, arrive at First Baptist Church Atlanta in Atlanta for his funeral Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Rose was killed while responding to a shooting at the CDC. (Arvin Temkar/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — A surging stock market and a flurry of deal making padded the profits of Wall Street's two big investment banks, which both saw a double-digit jump in profits in the fourth quarter.

Goldman Sachs's net earnings rose 12% from a year earlier, posting a profit of $4.62 billion, or $14.01 a share. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley said it earned $4.4 billion, or $2.68 per share, compared to a profit of $3.71 billion, or $2.22 per share, compared to a year earlier.

Wall Street has been bolstered by the Trump administration's deregulatory policies, which has led corporations to seek out mergers and acquisitions, as well as the surge of investor interest in artificial intelligence companies and those who stand to benefit from the mass adoption of technologies like ChatGPT.

Fourth-quarter investment fee revenues over at Goldman were up 25% year-over-year and Morgan Stanley saw a 47% jump in revenue in its investment banking division. Both banks said their investment fee backlog, which is a signal of how much deal making is still pending that banks are working on, increased significantly in the fourth quarter.

Goldman and Morgan's results reflect the strong earnings out of the other big banks that reported their results this week. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup all saw jumps in fourth-quarter profits, but their results were dampened by the ongoing tensions that Wall Street is having with the White House over the issue of the independence of the Federal Reserve and President Donald Trump's interest in capping credit card interest rates at 10%.

Along with a strong investment banking performance, Goldman Sachs also agreed to sell off its Apple Card credit card portfolio to JPMorgan Chase last week, effectively exiting its brief experiment in consumer banking. The bank sold the credit card portfolio at a discount to JPMorgan, a sign of how desperately Goldman wanted to exit the business and put the Apple Card behind it.

This story has been corrected to show that Morgan Stanley's investment banking revenues rose 47%, not 22%.

FILE - Electronic signage is shown at Morgan Stanley headquarters, Thursday, March 4, 2021 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, the logo for Goldman Sachs appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)