A gunman who shot a migrant and critically injured two others at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) centre in Texas has been pictured for the first time.
Joshua Jahn,29, was named by US media as the suspected “sniper” who fired “indiscriminately” on the centre in Dallas from a nearby rooftop before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Investigators are still establishing a motive, but believe the shooting may have been fueled by anti-law enforcement sentiment.
FBI Director Kash Patel released images of bullets found at the scene, showing 'anti-ICE' written on one of the shells in blue ink.
This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities.
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 24, 2025
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US President Donald Trump and members of his administration seized on the attack as the latest instance of what they characterized as an escalation of politically motivated violence incited by the left.
They accused California Governor Gavin Newsom and other Democrats of stirring hate by unfairly vilifying law enforcement and conservative political figures.
Jahn, from Fairview, Texas, was reported to the son of Democrat and Republican parents but family members said he had shown little interest in politics. He was once arrested for dealing marijuana.
His brother Noah told NBC News he had not voiced his opinions on immigration before. “He didn’t have strong feelings about ICE as far as I knew,” he said. "I didn't know he had any political intent at all,” he told Reuters.
He added that his brother, who grew up going ot he Scouts, knew how to use a rifle that his parents owned, but insisted that “he's not a marksman, that's for sure.”
Noah said his brother was unemployed but had previously worked as a coder, and was planning on moving in with their parents in Oklahoma.
His parents were both university educated and his mother had called called for tighter laws on gun control, according to the Telegraph.
Mr Patel said: "While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an ideological motive behind this attack."
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem later said in a Fox News interview that the gunman "was targeting ICE," based on "evidence so far in this case."
It is the latest in a string of attacks on ICE facilities in recent months as the agency ramps up efforts to deliver on US President Donald Trump's pledge for mass deportations.
On his Truth Social platform, Trump accused "Radical Left Democrats" of stoking anti-ICE violence by "constantly demonizing Law Enforcement, calling for ICE to be demolished, and comparing ICE Officers to Nazis."
Invoking the recent assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, Trump said that "radical left terrorists" pose a "grave threat" to law enforcement and "must be stopped."
Trump said he would sign an executive order this week to "dismantle these domestic terrorism networks." He offered no evidence to support the notion that "networks," rather than individuals, were behind recent acts of political violence, or that left-wing perpetrators were any more prevalent than those on the right in recent years.
In a statement about the Texas shooting, the Department of Homeland Security said the suspect fired "indiscriminately" at the ICE facility, including at a van in the building's secured entryway where the victims were shot. All the victims were illegal migrants, the DHS said.
