Shooter died from a self-inflicted wound, DHS secretary Kristi Noem says
A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, killing one individual and injuring two others before dying from a self-inflicted wound, according to authorities.
“The preliminary investigation determined that a suspect opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building,” the Dallas Police Department said in a statement on X. “Two people were transported to the hospital with gunshot wounds. One victim died at the scene. The suspect is deceased.”
The shooter died from “a self-inflicted gun shot wound,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on X.
The victims were detainees at the facility, ABC reported, though authorities do not yet know if the detainees were targeted.
“While we don’t know motive yet,” Noem wrote in her X post, “we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop.”
The shooting is the fourth assault on a Texas ICE facility this year. In August, police arrested a man who claimed to have a bomb at the same Dallas office. On July 4, a group of assailants shot a local officer in the neck during a coordinated strike on the Prairieland Detention Center near Fort Worth. Days later, police killed a gunman who opened fire on a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, injuring two officers and a staffer.
The United States in recent months has seen a rise of left-wing political violence targeting ICE officers and conservative figures. White House border czar Tom Homan said in July that attacks on ICE officers are “up nearly 700 percent now.”
On September 10, a left-wing assassin killed prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah. On Friday, a gunman who left anti-Trump writings in his car shot up an ABC affiliate’s Sacramento office.
