An active shooter at Emory University in Georgia is now dead, Atlanta police said in a statement. The university wrote on X on Aug. 8, "Emory Emergency: Active shooter on Emory Atlanta Campus at Emory Point CVS.

The Atlanta Police Department said an active shooter near Emory University is dead and one officer was killed in the incident.

Authorities say both a suspected active shooter and a police officer were killed in a gunfight outside an Emory Point CVS, near the CDC and Emory University campus, on Friday afternoon.