This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
The FBI has confirmed that the suspect in this week's sniper attack on a facility used by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in Dallas, a suspect now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot, had wanted to deliver "real terror" to the federal law enforcement agents.
The confirmation came in a statement from FBI chief Kash Patel about the shooting that left ICE detainees dead and injured, but no federal officers were hurt:
He confirmed the FBI in Dallas and at its headquarters "have been working 24/7 to seize devices, exploit data, and process writings obtained on location and in the subject's person/residence/bedroom."
The suspect has been identified in several documents at Joshua Jahn, 29.
Patel said, "The perp downloaded a document titled 'Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management' containing a list of DHS facilities. – He conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the 'Charlie Kirk Shot Video' between 9/23-9/24. – Between 8/19-8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents. – One of the handwritten notes recovered read, 'Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, 'is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?" – Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning."
Jahn is thought to have "fired indiscriminately" at the ICE building on Wednesday morning.
ICE detainees were being loaded out of a van when the gunfire erupted, authorities said.
Authorities confirmed one of the bullets left behind by the suspect was engraved with the phrase "ANTI-ICE."
WND had reported the violence follows a months-long campaign by leftist politicians and their supporting media corporations to unleash inflammatory rhetoric about President Donald Trump's agenda for border security and the deportation of illegal alien criminals.
"This vile attack was motivated by hatred for ICE," charged Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary. "For months, we've been warning politicians and the media to tone down their rhetoric about ICE law enforcement before someone was killed.
"This shooting must serve as a wake-up call to the far-left that their rhetoric about ICE has consequences," Noem said.
In fact, on Rumble, a video of leftist California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasting ICE was posted just hours earlier:
The FBI said the attack happened early Wednesday morning and involved multiple gunshots.
Gov. Greg Abbott said his state supports border security and deportation efforts, and the shooting "will NOT slow our arrest, detention, & deportation of illegal immigrants. We will work with ICE & the Dallas Police Department to get to the bottom of the assassin's motive."
Noem chided those in leftist campaigns who demonize immigration authorities.
"Comparing ICE day in and day out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences," she added. "The men and women of ICE are fathers and mothers, sons and daughters. They get up every morning to try and make our communities safer. Like everyone else, they just want to go home to their families at night."
Newsom's state actually launched a campaign to ban ICE agents from wearing masks to conceal their identities – to prevent attacks on their families.
Federal authorities said that since state officials have no authority over federal officers, Newsom's campaign means little.
Activist Laura Loomer confirmed, "I did a background check on Joshua Jahn, the ICE shooter in Dallas, Texas. Joshua Jahn's profile picture from his now-wiped Facebook page, per the background check results, reveals ANTIFA and communist imagery. The profile photo is of an armed communist with the hammer and sickle. The text reads GLORIOUS EXPOSITION, COMRADE. He also has a previous conviction for selling Marijuana. Proof this was Leftist political violence against ICE officers.":
The link between leftists advocating for actions against ICE and the shooting, however, was noted over and over.
