Dallas shooter wrote ‘anti-ICE’ message, FBI says, in attack that left two detainees dead: Live updates – UK Times

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Joshua Jahn, 29, has been named as the suspected shooter in the Dallas ICE facility shooting that left two detainees dead and another in critical condition, according to reports.

Multiple law enforcement sources told the Daily Mail and NBC News confirmed Jahn as the suspect. Officials have not publicly named the suspect or the victims.

The shooter “fired indiscriminately” at the Dallas ICE building, including at a van in the sally port where the victims were shot, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The shooter is deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. He was reportedly found dead on the roof of a nearby immigration attorney’s office.

Although the investigation is ongoing, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X that one of the unspent shell casings was engraved with the phrase “ANTI ICE.”

The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of targeted violence, FBI Dallas Special Agent in Charge Joseph Rothrock said.

The suspected sniper who killed two Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees and wounded another in a shooting at a facility in Dallas was found with “anti-ICE messaging,” according to the FBI.

No ICE agents were injured in the shooting at the holding center in northwest Dallas, officials confirmed, but the victims were ICE detainees, the Department of Homeland Security said.

In total, four people were shot in the violence that unfolded Wednesday morning, including the suspect who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Dallas police said.

Joseph Rothrock, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the Dallas field office, said the incident is being investigated as an act of targeted violence, while FBI Director Kash Patel said casings recovered from the scene were “engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.’”

Officials have yet to reveal the identities of the victims or the suspect.

Rhian Lubin has the latest.

Two detainees are now confirmed dead, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The shooter “fired indiscriminately” at the Dallas ICE field office building, including at a van in the sally port where the victims were shot, a statement from the department read.

Three detainees were shot; two are deceased while and the other is in critical condition, according to the statement.

Trump administration officials have blamed the left for its rhetoric about immigration officials in the wake of the shooting at the Dallas ICE facility.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the shooting should serve as a “wake-up call to the far-left.”

“For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed. These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences,” she wrote in a post on X.

“Comparing ICE Day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters,” Noem continued. “The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt similarly urged Democrats to quit “demonizing” immigration officials in the wake of the shooting at the Dallas ICE facility.

“Democrats must stop demonizing the heroic men and women of ICE who are just doing their jobs to keep Americans safe,” she wrote on X on Wednesday.

Her post comes after FBI officials announced that a shell casing engraved with “ANTI-ICE” was recovered from the scene.

The suspect died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. Little other information about the suspect is publicly known at this time.

Leavitt used the same phrase as Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who at a press conference on Wednesday demanded all lawmakers to stop ‘demonizing’ agents.

“To every politician who is demonizing ICE, who is demonizing CBP: stop,” Cruz said.

“In America, we disagree,” he added. “That’s fine, that’s the democratic process, but your political opponents are not Nazis.”

An FBI official noted Wednesday’s attack in Dallas marks “just the most recent example of targeted violence” against an ICE facility in Texas, referring to the July 4 attack against a nearby immigration center.

On July 4, a group of attackers dressed in black military-style clothing opened fire outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, southwest of Dallas, Texas, authorities have said.

Fourteen people have been since charged in connection to the attack.

Law enforcement officials have not yet publicly identified the victims in Wednesday’s shooting.

When police got to the Dallas immigration field office, they found four people shot: three victims and one shooter.

The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and another victim has died, police said.

“While we’re not releasing identities of any victims at this time, what I can confirm for you is no members of law enforcement were hurt during this attack,” Joseph Rothrock, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the Dallas field office, said.

The incident is being investigated as an act of targeted violence, he said.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said “politically motivated violence is wrong” at a press conference in his home state Wednesday, noting it’s been two weeks since Charlie Kirk was killed in Utah.

“To every politician who is demonizing ICE, who is demonizing CBP: stop,” he said. “This has very real consequences.”

“In America, we disagree,” the Texas Republican continued. “That’s fine, that’s the democratic process, but your political opponents are not Nazis.”

Cruz urged Americans to “work together without demonizing each other, without attacking each other.”