What we know about the Dallas ICE facility shooter

(NewsNation) — Authorities have identified the suspected shooter at the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office one detainee was killed and two others were critically injured on Wednesday morning as Texas resident Joshua Jahn, NewsNation has confirmed.

Sources told NewsNation that Jahn, 29, resided in Collin County, located northeast of Dallas. Jahn does not have any known terrorism-related derogatory charges in his background, sources said, but he was previously arrested and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and dealing marijuana.

Dallas Police Chief David Cormeaux told a local television station that authorities are looking into the possibility that Jahn was living in Durant, Oklahoma.

DHS officials said in a statement before Jahn was publicly identified as the shooter that a sniper had fired "indiscriminately" at the ICE facility. The detainees who were shot in or near a van that was parked near the ICE field office, which is used as a processing center for those taken into federal custody by immigration officers and agents.

Jahn was found dead by officials shortly after the shooting, which took place at around 6:40 a.m. on Wednesday.

FBI Director Kash Patel posted photos of the bullet casings found near the shooter. One of the casings read “anti-ICE”. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem posted on X that she has been warning politicians and the media for months to “tone down their rhetoric” about ICE before someone was killed.

“These horrendous killings must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences.” Noem wrote. “Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences.”

The FBI declined to identify the three victims of the shooting, one of whom died at the scene and two others who were taken to a local hospital. Authorities have also not mentioned a possible motive, but the FBI special agent in charge of the Dallas field office said that the agency is investigating the shooting as an incident of targeted violence.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has characterized the shooting in a social media post as “an assassination”. DHS officials said that ICE detainees were shot and that no officers were working at the field office. Police said that the suspected shooter opened fire on the facility from an adjacent building. Two gunshot victims were taken to a local hospital, and one person died at the scene, police said.

“This assassination will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants,” Abbott wrote on X. “We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Dept. to get to the bottom of the assassin’s motive. We will offer ICE additional support to assist their operations.”