A crazed gunman who scrawled “ANTI ICE” on his ammo opened fire on federal agents and immigration detainees in Dallas on Wednesday morning — killing one migrant and wounding two others — in the latest horrifying attack on ICE and border patrol authorities.
Violence against immigration agents has been skyrocketing since President Trump began his massive deportation sweep — with the Department of Homeland Security warning that threats have increased 1000% in recent months.
The shooter is Joshua Jahn, 29, of suburban Dallas, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene. He’s a former Boy Scout who also has a criminal record after being busted with weed.
The shooting at the Dallas ICE facility is being investigated “as an act of targeted violence,” the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, Joe Rothrock, told a press conference on Wednesday morning.
“What I can share with you is that early evidence we’ve seen from rounds that were found near the suspected shooter contain messages that are anti-ICE in nature. Again, this is just the most recent example of this type of attack,” Rothrock said.
The killer fired multiple rounds from a sniper’s nest on the roof of a nearby immigration lawyers office. He shot into the Dallas ICE field office’s sallyport, seemingly indiscriminately, with some witnesses comparing the sounds of the shots to fireworks.
The weapon used appears to be an antique 8mm bold-action rifle — not unlike the gun used to kill Charlie Kirk earlier this month.
It’s not the first attack on federal agents in the Lone Star state — with four wounded in shootings in two other ambushes earlier this year,
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz took the mic to hit out at the demonizing of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers for fueling political violence.
“Just two weeks ago today we saw a political assassination in Utah that tore the heart out of much of this country. This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop,” he said.
“Politicians demanding that ICE agents be doxed and calling for people to go after their families: stop,” he told reporters.
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“This has very real consequences … Your political opponents are not Nazis.”
Authorities confirmed that no law enforcement were injured in the shooting. The victims have not been identified.
The same ICE facility was targeted with a bomb threat last month when a man named Bratton Dean Wilkinson, 36, arrived at the entrance of the Dallas Field Office claiming to have a bomb in his backpack and brandishing what he said was a detonator on his wrist.
A shelter-in-place order was issued and police were called, who rushed to the scene with members of the bomb squad. Wilkinson was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats.
Here’s what we know about the Dallas ICE facility shooting
- A gunman identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn opened fire on an ICE van at a detention center in Dallas, Texas, in the early hours of Sept. 24.
- Jahn began shooting while detainees were being transferred and the portcullis to the facility was open, reports claim.
- One person died and two were wounded, according to reports. Jahn was found dead on a nearby rooftop from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
- There was writing on the bullets, with one reading “ANTI-ICE,” according to the FBI.
- The shooting is being investigated “as an act of targeted violence,” the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, Joe Rothrock, said in a press conference.
Wednesday’s attack comes amid a 1,000% increase in assaults against ICE officers, according to the Department of Homeland Security, including two other incidents in Texas over the last three months.
On July 4, a group of 10 activists dressed in black “military-style” clothing started shooting fireworks at the Prairieland Detention Center, an ICE processing center about 35 miles south of Dallas, according to the Department of Justice.
After about 10 minutes, one or two attackers broke away from the main group and started to graffiti ICE trucks and the detention center.
When a police officer arrived at the scene, one member of the group hidden in nearby woods shot the officer in the neck, while another fired “20-30 rounds” at unarmed correctional officers. Federal prosecutors called it “an ambush on federal and local law enforcement officers.”
Ten people were charged with three counts of attempted murder and three counts of discharging a firearm in a crime of violence, according to the Justice Department.
Just three days later on July 7, a gunman clad in body armor opened fire on a US Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, with an AR-15-style rifle, injuring two federal employees and a local cop before he was fatally shot. The shooter got off “dozens” of rounds before he was taken down.
On Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel shared a picture showing the ammo rounds on the ground from the attack in Dallas, one had the words “ANTI ICE” written on it.
“These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off. We are only miles from Prairieland, Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers,” Patel wrote.
“It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice.”
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fumed at politicians who have assailed immigration agents with inflammatory and hyperbolic rhetoric.
“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. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer.”
A blue Toyota Corolla believed to belong to the shooter was found with a tattered, printed out map affixed to the right rear quarter panel, with text above it reading “Radioactive fallout from nuclear detonations have passed over these areas more than 2x since 1951.”
The image appears to be a map created by researcher Richard Miller, which shows areas of the US over which two or more radioactive clouds have crossed resulting from nuclear testing in Nevada between 1951-1962.
In an interview with NBC News, the gunman’s brother, Noah, said he was unaware of his brother having any particular political leanings.
The 29-year-old gunman was a registered independent, last voting in November 2024, the outlet reported.
“I didn’t think he was politically interested,” Noah Jahn told the outlet. “He wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew,” he said, claiming his sibling “didn’t have strong feelings about ICE.”
He said their parents owned a rifle and that his brother knew how to handle a gun, but that he wasn’t a skilled shooter.
“He’s not a marksman. He would not be able to make any shots like that,” Noah Jahn said.
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