The FBI has confirmed that the suspect in this week’s sniper attack on a facility used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Dallas, a suspect now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, had wanted to deliver “real terror” to the federal law enforcement agents.
The confirmation came in a statement from FBI chief Kash Patel about the shooting that left ICE detainees dead and injured, but no federal officers hurt:
@FBIDallas and FBI HQ have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject’s person/residence/bedroom. This @FBI is committed to providing timely updates, as promised:
– The perp downloaded a document titled “Dallas…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 25, 2025
He confirmed the FBI in Dallas and at its headquarters “have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject’s person/residence/bedroom.”
The suspect has been identified in several documents at Joshua Jahn, 29.
Patel said, “The perp downloaded a document titled ‘Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management’ containing a list of DHS facilities. – He conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the ‘Charlie Kirk Shot Video’ between 9/23-9/24. – Between 8/19-8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents. – One of the handwritten notes recovered read, ‘Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?” – Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning.”
Jahn is thought to have “fired indiscriminately” at the ICE building on Wednesday morning.
ICE detainees were being loaded out of a van when the gunfire erupted, authorities said.
Authorities confirmed one of the bullets left behind by the suspect was engraved with the phrase “ANTI-ICE.”
Three months ago, CNN irresponsibly gave free publicity to an app that recklessly shares the location of ICE Agents.
It has now been revealed the leftist lunatic shooter who opened fire on the Dallas ICE Facility was using one of these apps.
The liberal media is complicit in… https://t.co/kaXDJzGwyJ pic.twitter.com/sCUzWNpXzd
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) September 25, 2025
WND had reported the violence follows a months-long campaign by leftist politicians and their supporting media corporations to unleash inflammatory rhetoric about President Donald Trump’s agenda for border security and the deportation of illegal alien criminals.
“This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE,” charged Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary. “For months, we’ve been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed.
“This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences,” Noem said.
In fact, on Rumble was posted a video of leftist California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting ICE just hours earlier:
This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
While the investigation is… pic.twitter.com/SMOyxiKLqA
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 24, 2025
The FBI said the attack happened early Wednesday morning, and involved multiple gunshots.
Gov. Greg Abbott said his state supports border security and deportation efforts and the shooting “will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Department to get to the bottom of the assassin’s motive.”
Noem chided those in leftist campaigns who demonize immigration authorities.
“Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” she added. “The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night.”
Newsom’s state actually launched a campaign to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities – to prevent attacks on their families.
Federal authorities said since state officials have no authority over federal officers, Newsom’s campaign means little.
NEW:
I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas.
Joshua Jahn’s profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page per the background check results reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and… pic.twitter.com/ziLiSmFU5J
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) September 24, 2025
Activist Laura Loomer confirmed, “I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn’s profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page per the background check results reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle. The text reads GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE. He also has a previous conviction for selling Marijuana. Proof this was Leftist political violence against ICE officers.”:
The link between leftists advocating for actions against ICE and the shooting, however, was noted over and over.
Yesterday afternoon, Ilhan Omar called for ICE to be “abolished.”
Last night, Gavin Newsom called for people to “push back” against ICE agents.
Today, an anti-ICE radical shot up a Dallas ICE facility.
This is a direct result of the Left’s anti-ICE rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/soholnZDiW
— Lance Gooden (@Lancegooden) September 24, 2025
HOLY CRAP! VP JD Vance just UNLEASHED on Democrats for their violent rhetoric against ICE and law enforcement, calls out Gavin Newsom BY NAME.
“YOU CAN GO STRAIGHT TO HELL, and you have NO PLACE in the political conversation in the United States!”
“Because HERE’S WHAT… pic.twitter.com/UCYEAGP6LB
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 24, 2025
– At approximately 6:50 AM local time, Joshua Jahn, a 29-year-old sniper, fired multiple rounds from an elevated position at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, killing two people and wounding several others before dying by suicide.
Unspent cartridges engraved with… pic.twitter.com/9TVPnhooA6
— The Informant (@theinformant_x) September 24, 2025
Gavin Newsom: “To ICE: unmask. What are you afraid of?”
This morning, he got his answer. A sniper opened fire on an ICE facility, three people were shot, and one of the bullets was engraved with “ANTI ICE.” ICE agents fear being hunted because reckless politicians like him paint… pic.twitter.com/Vn68egp8wD
— Congressman Pat Harrigan (@RepPatHarrigan) September 24, 2025
JUST IN: Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons says shots were fired INTO the ICE office in Texas, where detainees are brought in.
All ICE employees are ACCOUNTED FOR. There are confirmed fatalities. Victims appear to be detainees. pic.twitter.com/hSKR5cpZaW
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 24, 2025
BREAKING: @MadisonSheahan reports no ICE officers were injured in the Texas facility shooting. pic.twitter.com/CWQd6FcuDv
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) September 24, 2025
DALLAS ICE INCIDENT: There’s a heavy police presence off I-35E in northwest Dallas, where sources say three people were wounded at an ICE facility. A shooter was found dead on the roof of a nearby building, sources tell WFAA.
More: https://t.co/lbgyCMdTsK pic.twitter.com/9atP7VbN47
— WFAA (@wfaa) September 24, 2025
BREAKING: An active shooter has opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas. At least 3 injured. Police are searching for a sniper overlooking the building.
This is what happens when Democrats demonize law enforcement and glorify lawlessness…
Dallas is run by Democrats,… pic.twitter.com/939hVqCu6h
— A Gene Robinson (@AlBuffalo2nite) September 24, 2025
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– At approximately 6:50 AM local time, Joshua Jahn, a 29-year-old sniper, fired multiple rounds from an elevated position at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, killing two people and wounding several others before dying by suicide.