By Steve Neavling
The man who opened fire on an ICE field office in Dallas this week had researched ICE-tracking apps, downloaded a list of Homeland Security facilities, and studied video of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination before the attack, FBI Director Kash Patel said Thursday, Reuters reports.
Evidence “indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning,” Patel wrote on social media. A handwritten note recovered from the home of the suspect, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, read: “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘Is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’”
Jahn fired from a rooftop near the ICE building early Wednesday, killing one detainee and injuring two others, officials said. No agents were hurt. Authorities said Jahn took his own life; a bullet found beside him was marked “ANTI-ICE,” according to the FBI.
The shooting came two weeks after Kirk was gunned down by a sniper in Utah, a killing that fueled fears of escalating political violence. Trump immediately blamed “Radical Left Democrats” for the Dallas attack, accusing them of “constantly demonizing Law Enforcement.”
Democratic leaders condemned the shooting in a joint statement, saying: “The political and ideologically-motivated violence in America has reached a breaking point this year. We need leaders who bring the country together in moments of crisis.”
Jahn’s brother, Noah, told Reuters he had no idea his sibling harbored political motives.
“I didn’t know he had any political intent at all,” he said.
