The Uvalde Foundation for Kids, a national nonprofit formed after the 2022 elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, announced it will award Rose a posthumous commendation for heroism, according to a press release. The date for the award presentation has not been set.

Authorities said Patrick Joseph White is the suspected shooter who carried out the deadly attack near the CDC headquarters and Emory University in Atlanta on Aug. 8, when police officer David Rose was killed.

Officer David Rose, 33, was shot and rushed to Emory University Hospital. He was later pronounced dead. The suspected shooter, who the GBI has identified as 30-year-old Patrick Joseph White, was also killed in the incident. Rose was responding to the threat of an active shooter at Clifton Road and CDC Parkway when he was fatally wounded.