The suspected Dallas ICE facility shooter, Joshua Jahn, left behind messages that were “definitively anti-ICE,” an investigator said Thursday.
Jahn, 29, said ICE agents are “people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck,” acting U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson said at a news conference.
While investigators haven’t found evidence that the shooter was part of any group — like a leftist group, as some on the right baselessly allege — they say the notes he left behind “expressed his hatred for the federal government.” The shooter intended to “maximize lethality against ICE personnel,” Larson said, but he didn’t appear to be targeting detainees. Three detainees were shot — one fatally. No ICE officers were hurt.
“It’s clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel,” Larson said about the shooter, whom investigators believe deleted evidence from his electronic devices. Law enforcement said Jahn was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Jahn was a registered independent and last voted in November 2024, according to public records, and appeared to have lived in Oklahoma and Texas before that, per NBC News.
