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A shooter opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas Wednesday morning, killing one illegal immigrant detainee and injuring two others, according to multiple reports.
The shooter, who was identified by Fox News as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, opened fire at a nearby government building before turning the gun on himself, the Dallas Police Department said. Joseph Rothrock, the FBI Special Agent in Charge for Dallas, revealed during a press conference Wednesday that agents found
"rounds" containing messages
"that are anti-ICE in nature" near the shooter.
Authorities believe that Jahn was aiming his gun at a van that he believed was full of ICE officers that was actually holding detainees, federal law enforcement sources told The Daily Wire.
A photo of the rounds shared by FBI Director Kash Patel on X showed a bullet casing with the phrase
"ANTI-ICE" written on it.
"While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical motive behind this attack (see photo below). One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase 'ANTI ICE,'" Patel wrote.
"These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off," he added.
"We are only miles from Prarieland Texas where just two months ago an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers. It has to end and the FBI and our partners will lead the these investigative efforts to see to it that those who target our law enforcement are pursued and brought to the fullest extent of justice."
All of the victims were ICE detainees, officials said, and no law enforcement officers were injured.
The Department of Homeland Security initially said that two ICE detainees were killed, but later walked back the statement to clarify that there was one fatality.
"The takeaway from all of this is that the rhetoric has to stop. There are people out there who are seeing what is being placed online and they're coming and they're doing acts of violence against ICE employees ... it's just gotta stop, it's dangerous and people are losing their lives," Acting Dallas ICE field office director Joshua Johnson said during Wednesday's press conference.
An ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, located just outside of Dallas, was targeted by a group of leftist anarchists clad in military-style gear who threw fireworks at the building to lure officers outside before they opened fire on July 4, shooting an Alvarado police officer in the neck.
The group allegedly possessed fliers reading
"FIGHT ICE TERROR WITH CLASS WAR!" and
"FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS," and a flag stating,
"RESIST FASCISM - FIGHT OLIGARCHY."
In a separate incident on Aug. 25, Bratton Dean Wilkinson, a 36-year-old American citizen, showed up to the ICE facility in Dallas and claimed that he had a bomb in his backpack, the agency said.
Wilkinson showed a security officer a
"detonator" on his wrist, prompting a lockdown at the ICE facility.
The incident comes amid a spike in left-wing political violence, with the country still reeling from the political assassination of Charlie Kirk. Just a day before the shooting on the ICE facility, the man behind the attempted political assassination against President Donald Trump was found guilty in a Florida court.
Radical left-wing groups such as the Socialist Rifle Association have been linked to numerous violent attacks in recent years, including ones against the ICE facility in Alvarado.
Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday confidently stated that the attack on ICE was
"politically motivated."
"There's some evidence we have that's not yet public," Vance said.
"They were politically motivated."
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