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   Seth Meyers to All   
   A detainee is dead after officials say a   
   25 Sep 25 11:17:55   
   
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   On any given day, people detained by US Immigration and Customs   
   Enforcement are processed at the agency’s field office in Dallas –   
   a rectangular, brick building tucked between a busy highway, several   
   law offices and a luxury apartment complex.   
      
   On Wednesday morning, the unassuming building became the center of   
   national attention when a “sniper” fired “indiscriminately” at the   
   ICE facility from another building, leaving one detainee dead and   
   two others seriously injured, according to the Department of   
   Homeland Security.   
      
   Gunshots slicing through the air from above sent visitors running   
   for cover or peering out of their cars to investigate – some of them   
   worried for family members inside the facility.   
      
   Investigators are now examining writings left on a bullet casing and   
   working to determine a motive behind the shooting, which Homeland   
   Security Secretary Kristi Noem told CNN appears to have been carried   
   out by “someone who is very much against our ICE officers and the   
   work that they were doing.” It was at least the fourth instance of   
   violence or a threat at an ICE or Customs and Border Protection   
   facility in Texas this year.   
      
   Here’s what we know about the suspect, the victims and the investigation:   
      
   Who was the suspected shooter?   
   The shooter believed to be responsible for the incident was identified   
   as Joshua Jahn, according to three sources familiar with the case.   
   He was 29, one source briefed on the investigation told CNN.   
      
   Neither local nor federal officials have formally identified the gunman.   
      
   Authorities have said the shooter was found dead at the scene, and   
   died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Noem.   
      
   Jahn had lived in a Dallas suburb and was charged a decade ago with   
   delivering marijuana, according to court records.   
      
   In 2016, when he was 19, Jahn was charged with delivering more than   
   one-fourth of an ounce of marijuana, according to Collin County court   
   records. He pleaded guilty and the case against him was deferred, with   
   Jahn being placed on probation.   
      
   The charge is classified in Texas law as a “state jail felony,” the   
   least severe type of felony in the state.   
      
   Jahn voted in the Democratic primary in March 2020 and hasn’t voted   
   since then, according to records provided to CNN by the Collin County   
   Elections Department. Voters in Texas don’t declare a political party   
   when registering to vote, but choose a party’s ballot when voting in   
   primaries.   
      
   Who are the victims?   
   The three people shot while detained at the Dallas field office were   
   in the country illegally, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan told   
   Fox News. They had been arrested and were awaiting transfer to a   
   longer-term facility, Sheahan added.   
      
   DHS says the three detainees were shot while in a van in the sally port,   
   a fortified exit commonly found in prisons and on military bases.   
      
   Authorities have not named the victims.   
      
   One of the injured detainees is a Mexican national, according to a   
   statement from Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.   
      
   The ministry said the head of its North American Unit expressed   
   concern for the wounded Mexican national and requested clarification   
   of the shooting’s events and unrestricted access to the person, the   
   statement reads.   
      
   While DHS called the shooting “an attack on ICE law enforcement,” none   
   of the people shot were members of law enforcement, FBI Dallas Special   
   Agent in Charge Joe Rothrock noted during a news conference Wednesday.   
      
   https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/us/wwk-dallas-ice-facility-shooting   
      
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