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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n“While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack,” Patel wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dallas police said officers responded to an assist officer call at the facility around 06:40 local time (11:40\u202f GMT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said three detainees were shot. One has died, and two were critically injured, it said. They remain in critical condition, officials later said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The department had initially said two people had died in addition to the shooter, only to revise that information conditions hours later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One injured detainee is a Mexican national, the Mexican foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Acting ICE director Todd Lyons identified the shooter as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, the BBC’s US partner, CBS News reported. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Voter records indicate he was registered as an independent and last voted in the general election in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jahn had cannabis related charges in Texas dating back to 2016, according to records seen by the BBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FBI special agent Joe Rothrock told a news conference that rounds found near the gunman contained “messages that are anti-ICE in nature”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“This is just the most recent example of this type of attack,” he said, adding the FBI was investigating it as “an act of targeted violence”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dallas police said a preliminary investigation determined the suspect had opened fire from an adjacent building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot,” DHS said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Reuters news agency reported that the building targeted is an ICE field office used for short-term processing of recently arrested detainees, and is not used as a detention facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lyons told CBS News on Wednesday that the shooter deliberately targeted law enforcement with a “high-powered rifle”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said given the time are area of the shooting, it could have been more deadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The suspect “could have, in his indiscriminate fire, hit people traveling to work, civilians on the ground,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Edwin Cardona, a Dallas resident from Venezuela, told local media he was entering the building for an appointment when he heard gunfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I was afraid for my family because my family was outside. I felt terrible because I thought something could happen to them. Thank God no,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: A detainee has died and two others are critically injured after a rooftop sniper opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in Dallas, Texas, officials say. The gunman fired indiscriminately at the ICE facility and at a nearby unmarked van, law enforcement officials say, before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No law enforcement were injured. FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo on X of unused ammunition recovered from the scene. One casing has the phrase “ANTI-ICE” on it. It is the latest in a string of attacks on ICE facilities in recent months as… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50282,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50280\/revisions\/50282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}