The sniper who opened fire against the Office of the Immigration Field and Customs Control of Dallas, killing a detainee and wounding two detainees, allegedly left a note about looking for fear for 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?'” Said FBI director Kash Patel, in a statement on Thursday, the note that refers to armor drilling bullets.
Joshua Jahn is seen in a 2016 reserve photo.
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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.
Patel said that more evidence shows “a high degree” of Jahn’s planning, who died of a self -inflicted gunshot wound.
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 morning, killing an ice detainee and critically wounding two others, one of whom is a Mexican citizen.
The detainees were being loaded with a truck when the shots exploded, according to a senior ice official. Some detainees were still in the truck when the shots sounded, and the ice agents returned to the shooting to take the rest of them to a safe place in a movement that “probably saved more lives,” said the official.
Police personnel respond in the scene of a shooting at an immigration and customs compliance field office in Dallas, Texas, on September 24, 2025.
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While no officer were injured, the National Security Department said the shooting was “an attack on the ICE police.”
On Wednesday, the FBI launched an image of recovered bullets, including an engraving with the phrase “Anti-Ec”, 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 had not been released showed that the shooter was a “leftist extremist” who was “politically motivated to chase 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.
Police respond to the area around the Dallas Ice field office in Dallas, Texas, on September 24, 2025.
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The shooting comes in the midst of ice deportation efforts throughout the country and the DHS said ICE officers have faced an increase of more than 1,000% in 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.”
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.”
