{"id":253315,"date":"2025-09-25T09:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253315\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:59:18","slug":"what-to-know-about-the-dallas-ice-facility-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/253315\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Know About the Dallas ICE Facility Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Law enforcement authorities have identified Joshua Jahn, 29, as the suspected shooter who fired upon a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office<\/a> in Dallas early Wednesday morning, killing one detainee and injuring two others.<\/p>\n

Jahn, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said, \u201cindiscriminately\u201d opened fire at the facility, including at a van near the sally port, from atop a nearby building before 7 a.m., Wednesday.<\/p>\n

While authorities have yet to state an official motive, they also said that they found bullets inscribed with the words \u201cANTI-ICE\u201d<\/a> near Jahn\u2019s body, prompting President Donald Trump and Administration officials to call the shooting an attack on the institution<\/a> over his hardline immigration agenda.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we know so far about the shooter.<\/p>\n

A Boy Scout from north Texas<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> reported that Jahn had two siblings\u2014a brother and a sister\u2014and lived with his parents as recently as a few months ago. His father, according to a LinkedIn profile<\/a>, retired in 2020 after 36 years of employment at an elevator and escalator firm. His mother, meanwhile, previously worked at a massage school in Texas, according to a currently inaccessible Facebook profile<\/a>. Residents described their family to CBS News<\/a> as of Norwegian background.<\/p>\n

Speaking to a local NBC News outlet<\/a>, Jahn\u2019s brother Noah said he and Joshua were Boy Scouts who grew up in Allen, a northern Texas suburb. Jahn was unemployed but had taken an interest in coding, his brother added. A LinkedIn profile<\/a> with Joshua Jahn\u2019s name shows affiliation with the Boy Scouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Two properties are connected to the shooter: one in Fairview, Texas, and another in Durant, Okla. Jahn\u2019s brother Noah told NBC that they were planning to move to Oklahoma to a property owned by their parents and that the last time he saw his brother was two weeks ago at their parents\u2019 house. Law enforcement officials visited<\/a> both properties as part of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n

Previously attended UT Dallas<\/p>\n

The LinkedIn profile appearing to be from Jahn also shows that he had attended the University of Texas at Dallas from 2014 to 2015 and Collin College from 2015 to 2017, studying in the fields of mechanical engineering and computer science, respectively.<\/p>\n

Collin College confirmed in an email to local media outlet KERA<\/a> that a student with the same name as Jahn attended on and off until 2018. The University of Texas at Dallas, in a statement to a local ABC affiliate<\/a>, said that a person with the same name and birthday \u201cbriefly attended UT Dallas over a decade ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

The LinkedIn profile also shows that Jahn worked for seven months in 2018 and 2019 in Solartime USA, a Texas-based solar energy company. The company\u2019s CEO, Martyna Kowalczyk, told the Associated Press<\/a> in a statement that Jahn worked at her company for a few months \u201cmany years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appeared familiar with a rifle<\/p>\n

Jahn\u2019s brother Noah told NBC News<\/a> that the suspect knew how to use their parents\u2019 rifle.<\/p>\n

But Noah Jahn claimed that his brother was \u201cnot a marksman\u201d and also cast doubt that Jahn would have been able to fire with accuracy from the nearby roof.<\/p>\n

Interested in video games and internet culture<\/p>\n

Two of Jahn\u2019s friends, who asked not to be identified, told ABC News<\/a> that they remember him as a person with a deep interest in video games and internet culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a complete shock to me,\u201d one of the friends said, adding that Jahn \u201cwas the least political\u201d of all the people he knew in high school. \u201cHe liked playing video games,\u201d the friend added.<\/p>\n

The friends provided ABC News<\/a> with a username for the gaming platform Steam that they said belonged to Jahn. The Steam profile, ABC News reported, showed its user spent over 10,000 hours playing games like Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, and Rust.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The username is also linked to a Reddit account. ABC News reported that the Reddit account had not been used in around six years and that previous posts point to an interest in gaming and smoking marijuana. A spokesperson for Reddit told ABC News that they\u2019ve \u201csuspended the account out of an abundance of caution\u201d and that they \u201ccan\u2019t say for sure whether this account was associated with the suspect.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

TIME could not independently verify the accounts.<\/p>\n

Had a drug-related criminal history<\/p>\n

Public records indicate Jahn had previously run afoul of the law.<\/p>\n

In June 2016, Jahn pleaded guilty to delivery of marijuana weighing between a quarter of an ounce and five pounds, according to public records. He was fined $500 and was placed on probation for five years, but a judge approved an early release in March 2017 based on the recommendation of community supervision officials due to Jahn\u2019s regular reporting and compliance. The legal proceedings were subsequently dismissed.<\/p>\n

The AP reported that in late 2017, Jahn drove cross-country for a job involving harvesting marijuana, according to Ryan Sanderson, who owns a legal cannabis farm in Washington state.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a young kid, a thousand miles from home, didn\u2019t really seem to have any direction, living out of his car at such a young age,\u201d Sanderson told AP. \u201cI don\u2019t remember him being that abnormal. He didn\u2019t seem to fight with anyone or cause trouble. He kept his head down and stayed working.\u201d<\/p>\n

A registered independent in Oklahoma<\/p>\n

Jahn\u2019s motive hasn\u2019t been ascertained, but many, including Trump Administration officials, have speculated about the suspect\u2019s ideological leanings. Vice President J.D. Vance, speaking at an event in North Carolina, labeled Jahn a \u201cviolent left-wing extremist.\u201d Vance added that, based on \u201csome\u201d evidence that he says authorities have not yet made public, \u201cwe know this person was politically motivated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jahn\u2019s brother Noah told NBC News that he was not a person Noah would have ever thought would be involved in a politically motivated shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think he was politically interested,\u201d Noah said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Online records show that Jahn was registered to vote as an independent in Oklahoma, where he voted once, in the 2024 general election. The New York Times<\/a> reported that Jahn voted in a Democratic primary in Texas in March 2020.<\/p>\n

But an unnamed fellow Boy Scout trooper also told NBC News that the suspect did sometimes voice his political opinions, recounting a conversation a few years back about migrant caravans entering the country. \u201cHe was just upset about how people were not understanding people\u2019s desperation to get out of bad situations and how immigration was being handled as a whole,\u201d the unnamed troop member said.<\/p>\n

The troop member, however, was surprised that Jahn was identified as the shooter. \u201cHe was pretty against it,\u201d the member said about gun violence, \u201cso that\u2019s why this is making it even more surprising. He was not somebody that would condone those kind of actions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement authorities have identified Joshua Jahn, 29, as the suspected shooter who fired upon a U.S. Immigration…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":253316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,9880,30809,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-253315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-news-desk","12":"tag-overnight","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115264354091692309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}