Dallas Ice Shooting The latest: Sniper supposedly left a note behind saying that he wanted to bring the agents ‘terror’
The sniper who opened fire against the Office of the Immigration Field and Customs Control of Dallas allegedly left a note about seeking fear of ice agents.
The handwritten note said: “Hopefully this will give the real terror agents, to think: ‘Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?'” The FBI director Kash Patel revealed in a statement on Thursday, the note that refers to armor drilling bullets.
Patel said that the sniper, identified by the sources as Joshua Jahn, supposedly had searches last month in applications that track the ICE agents and allegedly downloaded a document called “Dallas County National Security Office AND Emergency management “, which has a list of DHS facilities.
“He made multiple ballistics and the` `Charlie Kirk filmed the video ‘” on Tuesday and Wednesday, Patel said.
Additional evidence points to “a high degree of planning prior to attack,” Patel added.
The agents of application of the law look around the roof of an apartment building near the scene of a shooting in an immigration and customs office of the United States in Dallas, on September 24, 2025.
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Jahn supposedly “shot indiscriminately” in the ice building on Wednesday, killing an ice detainee and critically wounding two other detainees, one of whom is a Mexican citizen.
Jahn died of a self -inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.
The special FBI agent Joe Rothrock said it seemed that the rounds found near the suspect “contain messages that are anti-there.” Patel launched an image of recovered bullets, including an engraving with the phrase “Anti-Hielo”, and DHS launched a photo that seems to show a shot on an American flag screen.
A photo of the uncovered shell roofs recovered at the scene of a filming in the Immigration Control and Customs Field Office of Dallas, on September 24, 2025 he was shared by the director of the FBI Kash Patel in his social media account X.
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In a photo provided by the National Security Department, bullet holes are seen in an American flag exhibition after a shooting in an immigration and customs compliance field office in Dallas, Texas, September 24, 2025.
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Vice President JD Vance said during the comments in North Carolina on Wednesday that the evidence that has not yet been published shows that the shooter was a “extremist of the left” who was “politically motivated to persecute people who are enforcing our border.”
The FBI said the shooting is being investigated “as an act of objective violence,” and the interim director of ICE, Todd Lyons, said he would put all ice facilities on a higher alert.
While no officer were injured, the National Security Department said the shooting was “an attack on the ICE police.”
The application of the law and the Republican politicians suggested a political motive for the shooting, which occurs in the midst of ice deportation efforts throughout the country. The DHS said in a statement that ICE officers have faced an increase of more than 1,000% in the assaults against them.
Two Texas facilities were attacked this July: a police officer was shot in an ice detention center in Alvarado and an armed man opened fire at the entrance of the annex of the border patrol sector in McAllen.
The authorities said that attacks against ice and the application of the law must end.
“Our prayers are with the families of the murdered and our application of the Ice Law. This vile attack was motivated by ice hatred,” said DHS secretary Kristi Noem, in a statement. “For months, we have been warning politicians and the media that mitigate their rhetoric about the ICE police before someone was killed. This shooting should serve as a call for attention.”
Police respond to the area around the Dallas Ice field office in Dallas, Texas, on September 24, 2025.
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President Donald Trump wrote on social networks: “This is negligible! The brave ice men and women are only trying to do their job and eliminate the” worst “criminals of our country, but face an unprecedented increase in threats, violence and attacks of disturbed radical leftists.”
“This must stop,” said Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, at a press conference. “Violence is incorrect, politically motivated violence is incorrect.”
Vance said: “We are praying both for our ice agents, as well as by all those affected by this terrible attack.”
The democratic leaders of the House of Representatives in a statement thanked the first to respond and offered their condolences to the families of the victims.
“No one in the United States must be violently attacked, including our men and women in the application of the law that protect and serve our neighborhoods, and immigrants who are often victims of dehumanizing rhetoric,” the Democrats declaration continued. “Politically and ideologically motivated violence in the United States has reached a break point this year. We need leaders who join the country in times of crisis.”
Mireya Villarreal and Jim Scholz of ABC News contributed to this report.
