The gunman who opened fire on a bus of immigrants outside a Dallas immigration processing facility from a rooftop perch has been identified as Joshua Jahn, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Authorities said the words “anti-ICE” were scrawled on a stripper clip of ammunition found near the 29-year-old’s body. Jahn died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene.
“I can confirm at this time that the FBI is investigating this incident as an act of targeted violence,” Joe Rothrock, special agent in charge of the FBI in Dallas, told reporters.
“It is unfortunately just the latest example we’ve seen of targeted violence, to include here in north Texas where back on July 4 we saw a coordinated attack against an immigration center in Alvarado.”
Wednesday’s assault marked the third shooting aimed at ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents since July, coming as political rhetoric against the agencies has sharpened.
Only hours before Jahn opened fire, California Governor Gavin Newsom, appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, blasted federal immigration officers as the “private domestic army” of an “authoritarian government.”
“The ICE issue is alarming beyond words,” Newsom said. “People ask, ‘Well, is authoritarianism you being hyperbolic?’ Bulls–t we’re being hyperbolic. If you’re a black or brown community, it’s here in this country… These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government.”
Republicans, meanwhile, pleaded for an end to what they call dangerous language.
“Violence is wrong,” Sen. Ted Cruz said at a Wednesday press conference in Dallas. “Politically motivated violence is wrong.
“To every politician who is using rhetoric demonizing ICE and demonizing CBP [Customs and Border Protection], stop. To every politician demanding that ICE agents be doxxed, and calling for people to go after their families, stop.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said investigators are still analyzing Jahn’s exact motives. But early evidence, he noted, “shows an ideological motive.”
“These despicable, politically motivated attacks against law enforcement are not a one-off,” Patel added, recalling that just two months ago in nearby Prairieland, Texas, “an individual ambushed a separate ICE facility targeting their officers.”
Jahn’s brother said that he didn’t believe he had highly partisan political views, despite the anti-ICE message found on bullets recovered near his body.
“He didn’t have strong feelings about ICE as far as I knew,” Jahn’s older brother Noah told NBC News.
