Dallas Shooting Accused Left ‘Anti-Ice’ Notes But Wasn’t Part Of Any Group: Officials

Last Updated:September 26, 2025, 04:13 IST

Authorities said the suspect's words were “definitively anti-Ice” but there were no evidence that the suspect was a member of any specific group or entity

Bullet casings marked ‘ANTI-ICE’ recovered after deadly Dallas ICE office shooting, as seen in the photo shared by FBI Director Kash Patel. (IMAGE: X)

The 29-year-old man accused of shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in Texas was not part of “any specific group or entity, nor did he mention any specific government agency other than Ice," said authorities.

At a press conference on Thursday, Nancy Larson, acting US attorney for the northern district of Texas, said that the authorities found a collection of notes at the suspect’s, Joshua Jahn, residence, with one of the notes allegedly stating: “Yes, it was just me."

“Notably, these loose notes included a game plan of the attack and target areas at the facility," Larson said. “He called the Ice employees ‘people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck’."

She further said that the suspect “wrote that he intended to maximise lethality against Ice personnel and to maximize property damage at the facility" and said that it “seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees or harm them. It’s clear from these notes that he was targeting Ice agents and Ice personnel".

“He also hoped his actions would give Ice agents real terror of being gunned down, and he did this to induce constant stress in their lives," Larson said.

According to CNN, the shooting, described by the FBI as coming after a “high degree of planning" , occurred early on Wednesday at a facility in Dallas, with a spray of bullets fired from a rooftop hitting a building and an Ice transportation van, killing one Ice detainee who was inside the vehicle and badly injuring two others.

Following this, US President Donald Trump blamed “Deranged Radical Leftists" for the attack on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas where gunman Joshua Jahn, 29, killed one detainee and badly wounded two others on Wednesday.

However, CNN quoted Nancy Larson as saying that the suspect’s words were “definitively anti-Ice" but said that authorities found no evidence that the suspect was a member of any “specific group or entity, nor did he mention any specific government agency other than Ice".

She further said that the officials also found a handwritten note in which the suspect “expressed his hatred for the federal government".

Marcos Charles, an Ice official, also said on Thursday that the suspect used “Ice tracking apps" to monitor the movement of federal agents.

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