FBI Director Kash Patel said the gunman in the fatal shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility wrote a note that said “hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror” before opening fire.
Patel, in a post Thursday on social platform X, unveiled evidence the FBI and its Dallas office compiled from the man’s devices, residence and bedroom.
NewsNation, The Hill’s sister company, reported Wednesday that the shooter was identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn. Jahn, a native of Collin County, Texas, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.
According to the FBI director, the man handwrote a note that says, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with [armor-piercing] rounds on that roof?”
He also on Wednesday and Thursday downloaded a document listing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities in Dallas, searched for information on ballistics and videos of the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, and searched apps that track the presence of ICE agents from Aug. 19 to 24, Patel said.
“Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning,” Patel noted.
The DHS said Wednesday that one detainee was killed in the shooting. Two other detainees are in critical condition. The department said the shooter “fired indiscriminately at the ICE building,” including at a van in the entryway where the three victims were hit.
Patel, in a Wednesday post on X, shared a photo of unspent shell casings recovered after the attack. The message “ANTI-ICE” was written on one of the casings.
