Kash Patel: ICE Shooting Reveals ‘High Degree of Pre-Attack Planning’

The initial investigation into Wednesday’s shooting at the immigration detention facility in Dallas reveals “a high degree of pre-attack planning,” according to FBI Director Kash Patel.  

The alleged shooter, who authorities have identified as Joshua Jahn, was found to have downloaded a document containing a list of Department of Homeland Security facilities, according to Patel.  

Jahn “conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the ‘Charlie Kirk Shot Video’ between 9/23-9/24,” the FBI director wrote on X Thursday morning, adding, for almost a week in August, the shooting suspect “searched apps that tracked the presence of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents.”  

Patel said a handwritten note uncovered in the investigation into Jahn reads: “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’” 

The FBI’s investigation into the shooting is ongoing.  

After the suspect opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Dallas Wednesday morning, he took his own life. One detainee was killed in the shooting and two others were shot and are in critical condition, according to the Department of Homeland Security. 

Jahn, 29, has ties to Fairview, Texas, a town about 35 miles north of Dallas, and Durant, Oklahoma, a city in southern Oklahoma, according to Fox 4. FBI agents were reported outside the Jahns family home on Wednesday.  

Jahn criminal record includes a 2015 arrest in Collin County, Texas, for marijuana possession.  

Noah Jahn, the brother of the shooting suspect, told NBC’s local Dallas outlet that his brother “didn’t have strong feelings about ICE as far as I knew.”  

“I didn’t think he was politically interested,” Noah Jahn said of his brother. “He wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew.” 

Noah Jahn said he and his brother were Boy Scouts. Jahn has an interest in coding but was currently unemployed, the brother told NBC 5.  

The local Dallas outlet also spoke with a member of the same Boy Scout troop Jahn had been a part of. The man recalled a conversation he had with Jahn several years ago in which Jahn was upset over the migrant caravan situation.  

“He was just upset about how people were not understanding people’s desperation to get out of bad situations and how immigration was being handled as a whole,” the man recalled. 

Bullet casings found near the deceased shooter read “ANTI ICE.”  

The shooting incident is being investigated as an “act of targeted violence,” Joseph Rothrock, Dallas FBI special agent in charge, said during a press conference Wednesday morning. 

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the attack is “part of a dangerous pattern.”  

“People don’t write anti-ICE messages on ammunition and open fire on law enforcement facilities because they like ICE. This violence is directly fueled by hateful rhetoric. It must end now,” Noem said.  

There has been a 1,000% increase in assaults against ICE agents since the Trump administration launched a large-scale apprehension and deportation effort. Over 2 million illegal aliens have either been removed or have chosen to self-deport since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, according to DHS.