The shooter who opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Dallas spent a “significant” amount of time planning the attack on ICE personnel and left a note saying he wanted to “maximize lethality,” officials said on Thursday.
A preliminary investigation of the incident that left one ICE detainee dead and two others injured found that the shooter, 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, acted alone in the attack and specifically wanted to cause ICE agents “terror.”
Law enforcement officials found a “collection of notes” at Jahn’s home after conducting a search warrant in which he expressed negative views of ICE as well as the federal government, Nancy Larson, the acting US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said in a press conference.
Among the notes, Jahn said he acted alone, wanted to “maximize lethality” against ICE agents, and hated the federal government.
“He hoped his actions would give ICE agents real terror of being gunned down,” Larson said. “He hoped his actions would terrorize ICE employees and interfere with their work which he called ‘human trafficking.’”
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