What We Know About the Dallas ICE-Facility Shooting
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September 25, 2025

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On Tuesday morning, at least three people were shot at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas; at least one was killed. The victims are believed to be ICE detainees. While the investigation is ongoing, federal officials were quick to point to a political motive for the shooter, citing messages reportedly written on the bullets used in the attack. Here’s what we know so far.

What happened?

According to officials, the Dallas Police Department responded to an “assist the officer” call received just before 7 a.m. along North Stemmons Freeway. When officers arrived on the scene, they discovered four people had been shot and two were deceased, including the shooter, who reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In a statement, the department said the preliminary investigation determined the suspect had “opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building.”

Dallas police chief Daniel Comeaux indicated that the investigation was still ongoing and that his department would be working “shoulder to shoulder” with federal partners in the FBI and other agencies.

Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin shared photos from the shooting site that appeared to show bullet holes in windows and a glass case containing an American flag:

What are law-enforcement officials saying?

At a press conference Tuesday morning, the FBI signaled it was investigating the shooting as an “act of targeted violence,” noting that an immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas, had been hit in July in a “coordinated attack.”

Joe Rothrock, the special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI field office, said rounds found near the suspected shooter “contained messages that were anti-ICE in nature.”

“Again, this is just the most recent example of this type of attack. This will be a whole-of-government response. There will be no resource not utilized to bring all of those individuals, to bring them to justice and hold them accountable,” Rothrock said.

FBI director Kash Patel denounced the shooting as politically motivated, even though the investigation is in its early stages. Patel said an initial review of the evidence shows an “ideological motive behind this attack,” sharing a photo of bullets from the scene including one that appears to have the words ANTI ICE written on it.

What do we know about the shooter?

NBC News reports that the suspected shooter in the incident has been identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, according to law enforcement sources. Per the outlet, public records associate Jahn with an Oklahoma address as well as several past residences in Texas, where he was born.

According to FOX4, a local affiliate, Jahn was previously arrested in 2015 in Collin County for marijuana possession.

NBC News also spoke to Noah Jahn, the older brother of the suspected shooter, who said Joshua never seemed particularly interested in politics and never voiced any anti-ICE sentiments to their family. “I didn’t think he was politically interested,” Jahn said. “He wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew.”

What do we know about the victims?

While law enforcement has declined to release the names of the shooting victims, officials confirmed no members of law enforcement were among those injured. Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told CNN the three victims were ICE detainees.

The Associated Press reports that two people were transported to a local hospital with gunshot wounds while another was pronounced dead at the scene, citing a Dallas police spokesman.

While initial reports varied on the number of deceased victims, DHS issued a corrected statement Wednesday afternoon confirming that one victim has died while two others are in “critical condition.”

How are politicians reacting?

Speaking at the Dallas press conference, Texas senator Ted Cruz condemned political violence, pointing the finger at politicians’ rhetoric around ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

“This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or CBP. This must stop,” he said. “To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP, stop!”

On social media, Vice-President J.D. Vance said he was praying for those injured in the shooting, adding, “The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop.”

When political commentator Jon Favreau criticized Vance, alleging he was providing a “political take” rather than accurate information, the vice-president responded with an insult:

Vance continued to address the shooting at an unrelated event in North Carolina, claiming that the shooter was a “a violent left-wing extremist.”

“There’s some evidence that we have that’s not yet public, but we know this person was politically motivated,” Vance said.

Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem said the shooting should act as a “wake-up call” to the far left about its rhetoric, claiming ICE officers have been compared to the “Nazi Gestapo” and “slave patrols.”

“The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop,” she wrote on social media.