1 detainee killed, 2 others injured critically in the shooting of the installation of Dallas Ice: the managers

A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a roof nearby on an American immigration and customs application (ICE) in Dallas on Wednesday, killing an inmate and injuring two others before committing suicide, the authorities said.

Officials initially declared that two of the three detainees were killed, but the Ministry of Internal Security said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon that two remain in critical condition.

The suspect was identified by the police such as Joshua Jahn, 29. The civil servant could not publicly disclose the details of the investigation and maintained himself with the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

The exact motivation of the attack was not immediately known. The head of the agency, Kash Patel, published a photo on social networks which shows a bullet containing the words “anti-ice” written in what seems to be a marker.

“The shooter pulled the ICE building without discrimination, including in a Sallyport van where the victims were slaughtered,” the Ministry of Internal Security said in a statement.

No ice agent was injured.

The shooting occurred at the local Dallas office, where the agents carry out short -term treatment of those who are in detention.

During a press conference earlier during the day, the authorities gave little details on the shooting and did not publish the names of the victims or the shooter.

The FBI said that he was investigating the shooting as “an act of targeted violence”.

The attack is the last targeted public murder in the United States and occurs two weeks after the conservative leader Charlie Kirk was killed by a shooter brandishing a rifle on a roof.

‘Fear for my family’

Edwin Cardona, an immigrant from Venezuela, said that he entered the ice building with his son for an appointment around 6:20 am on Wednesday when he heard shots.

An agent gathered people inside the building, took them to a safer area and explained that there was an active shooter in the region, said Cardona.

“I was afraid for my family because my family was outside. I felt terrible because I thought something could happen to them. God thank you, no,” said Cardona.

Cardona said his family had been brought to the building and that they were then gathered.

The ICE installation is located along the Interstate 35 East, just south-west of Dallas Love Field, a large commercial airport serving the Metropolitan region of Dallas-Fort Worth, and blocks of hotels intended for airport travelers.

Traffic cameras near the stage show six lanes of a highway normally occupied completely empty, with cars and semi-trailers at an interstate outing.

Shortly after the shooting and before the officials say that at least one victim was detained, the American vice-president JD Vance posted on the social platform X that “the obsessive attack on the police, in particular the ice, must stop”.

Republican senator Ted Cruz, Texas, continued in this direction, calling for the end of violence politically motivated during a press briefing on Wednesday.

“To each politician who uses rhetoric, demonizing ice and demonizing (customs and border protection): Stop,” Cruz told journalists.

But immediately after the press conference during which the officials refused to say if the victims include the detainees, the United States Democrat representative Marc Veasey called the Dallas WFAA-TV television news and told them that he was “absolutely disgusting” by the comments of certain officials.

“If they try to control this story and they do not want migrants to be the victim of this story, then they may want to walk slowly give us information on this subject, so that they can always talk about attacks against ice,” said Veasey.

‘They take them’

The Reverend Ashley Anne Sipe, who prays outside the installation of Dallas Ice every Monday, called the heartbreaking shooting.

“Violence does not heal anything,” said Sipe, a pastor in Lewisville near Dallas, to the Associated Press.

SIPE and other local religious leaders who have decried the deportations hold weekly vigilles and serve as “moral witnesses”. They pray and observe for about three hours, looking at immigrants entering the building to meet advisers and report to
checks.

Over the past two months, Sipe has said that she has noticed that people who enter the building are locked up on buses.

“They take them away and we don’t know where they take them,” said Sipe.

Other attacks in Texas

The incident comes after a threat of bomb in the same establishment last month and several months after an attack on July 4 in a Texas immigration detention center, a police officer, who was shot in the neck.

The attackers dressed in military-style black clothing opened fire outside the meadow detention center in Alvarado, southwest of Dallas, the federal prosecutors said. At least 11 people were charged as part of this attack.

A separate attack took place several days later, when a heavily armed man opened fire on federal agents with an assault rifle in an American border patrol establishment in Texas, near the American-Mexican border, injuring a policeman before the authorities killed and killed him.