Appearing Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons stated he would put all ICE amenities on a better alert following a capturing at a Dallas area workplace on Wednesday which killed one detainee and critically wounded two others.
Whereas no officers have been injured, the Division of Homeland Safety stated the capturing 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 have been shot,” DHS stated in a press release.
The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officers stated.
Regulation enforcement brokers look across the roof of an house constructing close to the scene of a capturing at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace in Dallas, Sept. 24, 2025.
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DHS beforehand stated two detainees have been killed and one was injured; the company later issued a correction saying one died and two have been shot however survived.
One of many wounded is a Mexican nationwide, in response to Mexico’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
Regulation enforcement and Republican politicians prompt a political motive for the capturing, which comes amid ramped up ICE deportation efforts all through the nation. The DHS stated in a press release that ICE officers have confronted a greater than 1,000% enhance in assaults towards them.
Two Texas amenities have been focused this July: a police officer was shot at an ICE detention facility in Alvarado and a gunman opened fireplace on the entrance of the Border Patrol sector annex in McAllen.
The FBI stated Wednesday’s capturing is being investigated “as an act of focused violence.”
FBI particular agent Joe Rothrock stated it appeared that rounds “discovered close to the suspected shooter comprise messages which can 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 indicate a gunshot in an American flag show.
Vice President JD Vance stated 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 stated 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 stated in a press release. “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 capturing should function a wake-up name.”
Police reply to the world across the Dallas ICE area 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 Ladies 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 going through an unprecedented enhance in threats, violence, and assaults by Deranged Radical Leftists.”
“This must cease,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, stated at a information convention. “Violence is mistaken, politically motivated violence is mistaken.”
Vance stated, “We’re praying each for our ICE brokers, but additionally for everyone who’s affected by this horrible assault.”
Home Democratic leaders in a press release thanked the primary responders and supplied their condolences to the victims’ households.
“Nobody in America needs 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.
