Shooting at Texas’s ICE Facility
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- Oct 6
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By: Litzzy Romero
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On September 29th in Dallas, Texas, around 6:40AM, 29-year-old male, Joshua Jahn fired at a U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, a detainee from El Salvador, was killed. Miguel Angel Garcia, a Mexican detainee, and Jose Andres Bordones-Molina, a Venezuelan detainee, were critically injured. Garcia died the following Tuesday at the hospital. No ICE officers were hurt. Jahn died of a self-inflicted gunshot. This is the second attack on ICE this year in Dallas.
Further investigation revealed that Jahn arrived at the area with a ladder around 3am. He was positioned on a nearby rooftop, and he indiscriminately fired at a transport van with the detainees inside and at the office window of ICE employees. Dallas Police confirmed the on-scene death and the hospitalization of the other two detainees. ICE officials rushed to provide aid and remove detainees.
A bullet with “ANTI-ICE” was left behind. Investigators discovered handwritten notes and pieces of evidence in Jahn’s home that revealed planning: “Yes, it was just me,” critical but general handwritten notes toward ICE, and a downloaded document named “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management” that listed the facilities. His bolt-action rifle was legally obtained. Joseph Rothrock, agent for the FBI's Dallas field office, said Jahn seemed to know when and where detainees would be transferred based on his positioning. Jahn also had an online record, but with little political involvement.
The Secretary of Homeland Security ordered a nationwide increase in security at ICE facilities. President Trump posted “STOP THIS RHETORIC AGAINST ICE AND AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT, RIGHT NOW!” Vice President Vance’s response is parallel.
Witnesses described the frantic moments. “It was one shot after another after another after another,” Ms. Robleto, who was waiting for her mother to return from a check-in that morning. “But I could not leave — my mother was inside.” Mr. Nunez reported that everything was closed when he arrived at his 9am appointment, and reflected on the sense of unsafety and fear among the community.
Garcia later died early Tuesday. His wife reported he had been shot 8 to 9 times, and his family took him off life support due to his critical condition.