Two prisoners have died and another is critically injured after a sniper on the roof in an ICE center (immigration and customs authority) in Dallas, Texas, which opened fire, the officials say.
The shooter fired indiscriminately in the ICE facility and in a nearby un marked van, according to the law enforcement officers before he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
No law enforcement authorities were violated. The FBI director Kash Patel has posted a photo of unused ammunition that was recovered from the scene. A housing has the expression “anti-ice”.
In the past few months it has been the youngest in a number of attacks on ICE facilities when the agency increases the efforts to carry out the promise of US President Donald Trump for mass shifts.
Kash Patel/FBI“While the examination has not yet been completed, a first review of the evidence shows an ideological motive for this attack,” Patel wrote about X.
“These loathed, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement authorities are not one -time.”
Joe Rothrock, special agent of FBI, said a press conference that contained “news that are anti-ice in nature” near the shooter.
“This is only the latest example of this type of attack,” he said. He said the FBI examined it as “an act of targeted violence”.
The Dallas police said a preliminary investigation had found that the suspect had opened the fire from an adjacent building.
“The Sagittarius fired indiscriminately on the ice building, also in a van in the Sallyport, where the victims were shot,” said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a statement.
The Reuters news agency reported that the goal of an ice field for short -term processing is used for recently arrested prisoners and is not used as a prison.
The incumbent director of the Dallas Ice Office Joshua Johnson told the press conference that it was the second time that he had to stand in front of the media and talk about a shooter in one of his institutions.
“Taking away from all this is that the rhetoric has to stop,” he said.
The Senator of Texas, Ted Cruz, also spoke at the press conference and convicted “politically motivated violence”.
“Your political opponents are not Nazis,” he said, asking people not to demonize each other for partisans. “The splitting rhetoric tragically has real consequences.”
Kristi Noem, secretary of the homeland protection authority, said in a statement: “This shootout must serve as a wake -up call for the left -wing order that its rhetoric has consequences.
“The comparison of ice day for and day with the Nazi gestapo, the secret police and the slave patrol has consequences.”
The US Vice President JD Vance posted on X: “The obsessive attack on law enforcement, especially ice cream, has to stop. I pray for everyone who is injured in this attack and for their families.”
The Republican governor of Texas Greg Abbott said on X that the shootout would not slow down “our arrest, detention and deportation of illegal immigrants.
The ice field office in Dallas was targeted this summer by a number of protests.
A man was arrested in August after entering the facility, according to DHS and claimed to have a bomb in his backpack.
The 36-year-old US citizen, Bratton Dean Wilkinson, had shown the security personnel of the building a device on the wrist, which he described as the “detonator”, said the DHS.
Last month shots were fired in ICE offices in San Antonio, Texas. In this incident, no injuries were reported that blamed “political rhetoric”.
Another shootout took place on July 4th in an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, after a protest escalated with the police. An officer was shot and survived. Eleven people were charged with this attack.
