Man who fired on ICE facility hated U.S. government, sought to kill federal agents, say officials

The gunman who opened occurrence connected an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) installation successful Dallas hated the U.S. Government and wanted to incite panic by sidesplitting national agents, officials said Thursday (September 25, 2025), a time aft the onslaught that killed a detainee and critically wounded 2 others.

The gunman, who fatally changeable himself, besides near down a enactment saying that helium hoped the onslaught would “give ICE agents existent terror,” the FBI manager said Thursday (September 25, 2025).

The station by Kash Patel connected the societal level X offered the archetypal hint of a motive down the shooting connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) that targeted the ICE building, including a van successful a gated entryway. The detainees were successful the van. No ICE unit were wounded.

The assailant, who authorities said fired indiscriminately from a adjacent rooftop, was progressive successful a “high grade of pre-attack planning,” Mr. Patel said, and agents person seized physics devices, handwritten notes and different grounds from a Dallas-area home.

“One of the handwritten notes recovered read, 'Hopefully this volition springiness ICE agents existent terror, to think, is determination a sniper with AP rounds connected that roof?'” Mr. Patel wrote, quoting an evident abbreviation for armour-piercing bullets.

The gunman had besides downloaded a papers titled “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management” containing a database of Homeland Security facilities, Mr. Patel said.

Hours earlier the shooting, the assailant conducted aggregate net searches for ballistics accusation and video of the assassination of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk connected a Utah assemblage field this month, Mr. Patel said. Last month, the antheral searched for apps that tracked the beingness of ICE agents, helium added.

Joshua Jahn, 29, was identified arsenic the shooter by a instrumentality enforcement authoritative who could not publically disclose details of the probe and spoke to The Associated Press on information of anonymity.

On Wednesday (September 24, 2025), Mr. Patel posted a photograph connected societal media showing a slug recovered astatine the country with “ANTI-ICE” written connected it. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered much information astatine ICE facilities crossed the U.S., according to a station by the DHS connected X.

The onslaught was the latest high-profile targeted sidesplitting successful the U.S. It happened 2 weeks aft Kirk was killed by a shooter connected the extortion of a gathering astatine Utah Valley University and arsenic heightened migration enforcement has prompted a backlash against ICE agents and fearfulness successful migrant communities.

The American Immigration Lawyers Association called the shootings “a stark reminder that down each migration lawsuit fig is simply a quality being deserving of dignity, information and respect.”

“Whether they are individuals navigating the migration process, nationalist servants carrying retired their duties, oregon professionals moving wrong the system, each merit to beryllium escaped from unit and fear,” the radical said successful a statement.

FBI says onslaught was ‘act of targeted violence’. Authorities person fixed fewer details astir the shooting and did not publically merchandise the names of the victims. The FBI said it was investigating the shooting arsenic “an enactment of targeted violence.” The gunman utilized a bolt-action rifle, according to a instrumentality enforcement authoritative who was not authorised to sermon the substance publically and spoke connected information of anonymity.

Edwin Cardona, an migrant from Venezuela, said helium was entering the ICE gathering with his lad for an assignment astir 6:20 a.m. erstwhile helium heard gunshots. An cause took radical who were wrong to a much unafraid country and said determination was an progressive shooter.

“I was acrophobic for my family, due to the fact that my household was outside. I felt terrible, due to the fact that I thought thing could hap to them,” Cardona said, adding that they were aboriginal reunited.

The ICE installation is on Interstate 35 East, conscionable southwest of Dallas Love Field, a ample airdrome serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, and blocks from hotels.

Who was the gunman?

Hours aft the shooting, FBI agents gathered astatine a location successful suburban Fairview, extracurricular Dallas, that nationalist records nexus to Jahn.

The location sits connected a tree-lined cul-de-sac successful a neighbourhood dotted with one- and two-story ceramic homes. The thoroughfare was blocked by a constabulary vehicle, and officials wearing FBI jackets could beryllium seen successful the beforehand yard.

A spokesperson for Collin College successful adjacent McKinney, said via email that Joshua Jahn studied determination “at assorted times” betwixt 2013 and 2018.

In precocious 2017, Jahn drove cross-country to enactment a minimum-wage occupation harvesting marijuana for respective months, said Ryan Sanderson, proprietor of a ineligible cannabis workplace successful Washington state.

“He's a young kid, a 1000 miles from home, didn't truly look to person immoderate direction, surviving retired of his car astatine specified a young age,” Sanderson told the AP.

Calls for an extremity to governmental violence

Shortly aft the shooting and earlier officials said astatine slightest 1 unfortunate was a detainee, Vice President JD Vance posted connected X that “the obsessive onslaught connected instrumentality enforcement, peculiarly ICE, indispensable stop.” Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who represents Texas, continued successful that direction, calling for an extremity to governmental violence.

The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, an advocacy group, said the shootings are “a heartbreaking reminder of the unit and fearfulness that excessively often interaction the lives of migrants and the communities wherever they live.” Noem says ICE agents person been targeted Noem noted a caller uptick successful targeting of ICE agents.

On July 4, attackers successful black, military-style covering opened occurrence extracurricular the Prairieland Detention Center successful Alvarado, southwest of Dallas, national prosecutors said. One constabulary serviceman was wounded. At slightest 11 radical person been charged successful transportation with the attack.

Days later, a antheral with an battle firearm fired dozens of rounds astatine national agents leaving a Border Patrol installation successful McAllen. The man, identified arsenic Ryan Louis Mosqueda, injured a responding constabulary serviceman earlier authorities changeable and killed him.

In suburban Chicago, national authorities erected a obstruction astir an migration processing centre aft tensions flared with protesters. President Donald Trump's medication has stepped up migration enforcement successful the Chicago area, resulting successful hundreds of arrests.

Dozens of migration tract offices crossed the state location administrative employees and are utilized for radical summoned for check-in appointments and to process radical arrested earlier they are transferred to semipermanent detention centres. They are not designed to clasp radical successful custody.

Security varies by location, with immoderate successful national buildings and others mixed with backstage businesses, said John Torres, a erstwhile acting manager of the bureau and erstwhile caput of what is present called its enforcement and removals division.