The sniper who opened fire on the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement subject workplace allegedly left behind a word about seeking to stoke concern for ICE brokers.
The handwritten word mentioned, “Hopefully it will give ICE brokers actual terror, to suppose, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?'” FBI Director Kash Patel mentioned in a press release on Thursday, the word referring to armor-piercing bullets.
Patel mentioned the sniper — identified by sources as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn — allegedly had searches final month on apps that monitor ICE brokers and he allegedly downloaded a doc referred to as “Dallas County Workplace of Homeland Safety & Emergency Administration,” which has an inventory of DHS amenities.
“He carried out a number of searches of ballistics and the ”Charlie Kirk Shot Video'” on Tuesday and Wednesday, Patel mentioned.
Further proof level to “a excessive diploma of pre-attack planning,” Patel added.
Legislation enforcement brokers look across the roof of an house constructing close to the scene of a capturing at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace in Dallas, Sept. 24, 2025.
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Jahn allegedly “fired indiscriminately” on the ICE constructing on Wednesday, killing one ICE detainee and critically wounding two different detainees, one among whom is a Mexican nationwide.
Jahn died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officers mentioned.
The FBI mentioned it appeared that rounds discovered close to the suspect had “anti-ICE” messages. Patel launched a picture of recovered bullets, together with one engraved with the phrase “ANTI-ICE,” and DHS launched a photograph that seems to point out a gunshot in an American flag show.
A photograph of unspent shell casings recovered on the scene of a capturing on the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement subject workplace, Sept. 24, 2025 was shared by FBI Director Kash Patel on his X social media account.
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In a photograph supplied by the Division of Homeland Safety, bullet holes are seen in an American flag show following a capturing at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subject workplace in Dallas, Texas, September 24, 2025.
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Whereas no officers had been injured, the Division of Homeland Safety mentioned the capturing was “an assault on ICE legislation enforcement.”
Vice President JD Vance mentioned throughout remarks in North Carolina on Wednesday that proof that hadn’t been launched confirmed the shooter was a “left-wing extremist” who was “politically motivated to go after people who find themselves implementing our border.”
The FBI mentioned the capturing is being investigated “as an act of focused violence,” and performing ICE Director Todd Lyons mentioned he would put all ICE amenities on the next alert.
Police reply to the realm across the Dallas ICE subject workplace in Dallas, Texas, Sept 24, 2025.
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The capturing comes amid ramped up ICE deportation efforts all through the nation and the DHS mentioned that ICE officers have confronted a greater than 1,000% enhance in assaults towards them. Two Texas amenities had been focused this July: a police officer was shot at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado and a gunman opened fireplace on the entrance of the Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen.
Officers mentioned that assaults on ICE and legislation enforcement should finish.
“Our prayers are with the households of these killed and our ICE legislation enforcement. This vile assault was motivated by hatred for ICE,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem mentioned in a press release. “For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE legislation enforcement earlier than somebody was killed. This capturing should function a wake-up name.”
President Donald Trump wrote on social media, “That is despicable! The Courageous Males and Girls of ICE are simply making an attempt to do their jobs, and take away the ‘WORST of the WORST’ Criminals out of our Nation, however they’re dealing with an unprecedented enhance in threats, violence, and assaults by Deranged Radical Leftists.”
