A shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas has left two people dead, including the gunman, and two others wounded, officials say.
According to police, the shooting occurred at about 6:40 a.m. local time on Wednesday. The shooter, identified by multiple news outlets as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, opened fire from an adjacent building.
The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
Two people were transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds, the Dallas Police Department said in a statement posted to X. The three victims were detainees. One victim died at the scene, two others are in critical condition, according to the Department of Homeland Security. No federal law enforcement officers were injured in the attack.
The shooting took place at an ICE field office, where recently arrested detainees are processed before they are taken to a detention facility elsewhere.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told multiple news outlets that the gunman appeared to be “a sniper.”
Other federal agencies, including the FBI, are assisting in the investigation.
Posting to his Truth Social network on Wednesday afternoon, President Trump claimed “this violence is the result of the Radical Left Democrats constantly demonizing Law Enforcement” without citing any evidence.
Meanwhile, Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey, who represents parts of Dallas in the U.S. House of Representatives, criticized Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, and high-ranking Trump administration officials for their responses to the attack.
“Governor Abbott and leaders from the Trump administration are already exploiting this tragedy to stoke fear, division, and anger,” Veasey wrote in a social media post. “As we mourn, we must also lower the temperature of our politics.”
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