Shooter Attacks Dallas ICE Facility

By Luisa Farole

On Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 6:40 a.m., Joshua Jahn, 29, killed two people and injured another before taking his own life at a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas. 

Norlan Guzmán Fuentes, 37, was pronounced dead at the scene, and Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, 32, passed away six days following the shooting after being taken off life support. Jose Andres Bordones-Molina, 33, the third victim, has since been released from the hospital and is now being held at an ICE facility south of Fort Worth. The three were shot while inside a transport van at the detention facility. 

Jahn was a resident of the nearby town of Fairview, Texas, and executed the attack from a nearby rooftop with a rifle he had legally purchased in August. He acted alone and took his own life, as he indicated he didn’t expect to survive after carrying out his plan, according to officials. FBI director Kash Patel described the attack as "politically motivated,” and evidence shows a “high degree of pre-attack planning.” 

Based on a collection of notes found by the FBI at his home, Jahn was targeting ICE agents rather than the detainees. He wrote that he hoped to give the agents “real terror,” referring to them as people “showing up to collect a dirty paycheck.” Additionally, Jahn left shell castings with “ANTI-ICE” engraved on them with blue ink at the scene.  The shooting came as a great surprise to Jahn’s friends and family, as he “wasn’t interested in politics on either side” as far as his brother, Noah Jahn, knew. 

In a social media post in response to the shooting, President Donald Trump blamed “deranged radical leftists” and “radical left Democrats” for the violence, calling them to “stop this rhetoric against ICE & America’s law enforcement.” 

Homeland Security Department spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said that as a result of the attack and other incidents, the department “will immediately begin increasing security at ICE facilities across the country.” The center reopened Sept. 30.