Appearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons mentioned he would put all ICE amenities on a better alert following a taking pictures at a Dallas discipline workplace on Wednesday which killed one detainee and critically wounded two others.
Whereas no officers had been injured, the Division of Homeland Safety mentioned the taking pictures was “an assault on ICE legislation enforcement.”
The suspected shooter has been recognized by legislation enforcement officers as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, a number of legislation enforcement sources informed ABC Information.
The shooter, who was on a close-by rooftop, “fired indiscriminately on the ICE constructing, together with at a van within the sallyport the place the victims had been shot,” DHS mentioned in an announcement.
The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officers mentioned.
Regulation enforcement brokers look across the roof of an condo constructing close to the scene of a taking pictures at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace in Dallas, Sept. 24, 2025.
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DHS beforehand mentioned two detainees had been killed and one was injured; the company later issued a correction saying one died and two had been shot however survived.
One of many wounded is a Mexican nationwide, in keeping with Mexico’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
Regulation enforcement and Republican politicians recommended a political motive for the taking pictures, which comes amid ramped up ICE deportation efforts all through the nation. The DHS mentioned in an announcement 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 hearth on the entrance of the Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen.
The FBI mentioned Wednesday’s taking pictures is being investigated “as an act of focused violence.”
FBI particular agent Joe Rothrock mentioned it appeared that rounds “discovered close to the suspected shooter include messages which might be anti-ICE in nature.”
FBI Director Kash 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 taking pictures on the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement discipline 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 taking pictures at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement discipline workplace in Dallas, Texas, September 24, 2025.
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Vice President JD Vance mentioned throughout remarks in North Carolina on Wednesday that proof that has not but been launched exhibits the shooter was a “left-wing extremist” who was “politically motivated to go after people who find themselves implementing our border.”
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 an announcement. “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 taking pictures should function a wake-up name.”
Police reply to the realm across the Dallas ICE discipline workplace in Dallas, Texas, Sept 24, 2025.
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President Donald Trump wrote on social media, “That is despicable! The Courageous Males and Girls of ICE are simply attempting 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.”
“This must cease,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, mentioned at a information convention. “Violence is unsuitable, politically motivated violence is unsuitable.”
Vance mentioned, “We’re praying each for our ICE brokers, but additionally for everyone who’s affected by this horrible assault.”
Home Democratic leaders in an announcement thanked the primary responders and supplied their condolences to the victims’ households.
“Nobody in America ought to be violently focused, together with our women and men in legislation enforcement who shield and serve our neighborhoods, and the immigrants who’re too usually the victims of dehumanizing rhetoric,” the Democrats’ assertion continued. “The political and ideologically-motivated violence in America has reached a breaking level this 12 months. We’d like leaders who deliver the nation collectively in moments of disaster.”
ABC Information’ Mireya Villarreal and Jim Scholz contributed to this report.
