Suspect in Dallas shooting did 'high degree' of planning - FBI

The FBI said yesterday that the suspect in the shooting at an immigration detention facility in Texas had engaged in a “high degree of planning” before the attack.

- Eric Berger

The FBI director, Kash Patel, said in a post on X that the alleged perpetrator downloaded a document titled “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management” containing a list of Department of Homeland Security facilities.

The shooting occurred early on Wednesday at a facility in Dallas, with a spray of bullets fired from a rooftop hitting a building and an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) transportation van, killing one Ice detainee who was inside the vehicle and badly injuring two others.

No Ice staff were hit in the attack, which the Trump administration condemned as being an action aimed at law enforcement and is urgently investigating, amid a surge in political violence in the US.

The suspect was identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, who took his own life at the scene.

Patel yesterday said that the suspect made several web searches for ballistics and for the “Charlie Kirk shot video” in recent days, referring to the murder of the rightwing activist and youth politics leader who was shot dead at an event in Utah this month.