The shooter who targeted an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday morning has been identified by authorities as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn.
The gunman died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after opening fire on an unmarked transport van from a nearby rooftop around 7 a.m. He fired multiple rounds from a rifle, killing at least two detainees and wounding another. The third victim is in critical condition.
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A source familiar with the FBI investigation previously confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Jahn, born in 1996, was the deceased suspect.
The attack is believed to be politically motivated, given Jahn had engraved anti-ICE messages on the shell casings left from the shooting.
“While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical motive behind this attack,” FBI Director Kash Patel said, posting an image of the rounds on social media.
Screenshots of Jahn’s alleged social media profiles surfaced online hours after the incident, shedding light on his left-leaning views.
“Joshua Jahn’s profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page per the background check results reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery,” conservative activist Laura Loomer wrote on X. “The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle.”
In another post, Loomer alleged Jahn’s mother has made social media posts critical of Texas Republicans who support the Second Amendment.
“Joshua Jahn is a radical Leftist with a Democrat mother who spews her hatred on social media,” Loomer claimed.
It appears Jahn has a criminal record based on a mugshot linked to his 2015 arrest for marijuana possession in Collin County, according to a local news report. Records show his parents live in the northern Texas county, specifically in the town of Fairview.
Wednesday’s shooting is the third attack against ICE or Customs and Border Protection since July.
The ICE facility that was targeted Wednesday is located near the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where ICE agents were caught in an ambush-style shooting on July 4. At least 15 people were arrested and charged in connection with that shooting.
No ICE agents were killed in either attack.
Republicans have largely blamed the violence on Democrats, who have ramped up their rhetoric against the agencies and taken legislative action to prevent ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities.
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Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday called on Democrats to stop their “rhetorical assault on law enforcement,” criticizing the Left’s escalated choice of phrasing which has been echoed by those who have committed recent attacks.
The Dallas ICE facility was also subjected to a bomb threat last month when a person claimed he had a bomb in his backpack. No bomb was detonated. The suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Bratton Dean Wilkinson, was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats.