Two detainees are dead, and a third is in critical condition after a sniper opened fire on the Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office on Wednesday morning.  Dallas police said in a news conference that no ICE officers were hurt in the shooting, and the victims’ identities will not be released at this time.

The shooting occurred at about 7 a.m. CDT near Dallas Love Field airport, according to local Dallas affiliate WFAA-TV, while detainees were in the process of boarding or getting off a bus.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem posted on X that “there were multiple injuries and fatalities,” adding that the shooter was found dead with a self-inflicted gun wound.

The DHS said in a statement that the shooter has been identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, who was on a nearby rooftop and “fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sallyport where the victims were shot.” The FBI adding that the shooting is being investigated “as an act of targeted violence.” The motive behind the shooting, or what the shooter was targeting, is not immediately clear.

A report from The New York Times stated that rounds found near the shooter were marked with messages that are “anti-ICE in nature,” according to Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI Joe Rothrock.

In a social media post on X., Vice President JD Vance called the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility this morning an “obsessive attack on law enforcement” that “must stop. I’m praying for everyone hurt in this attack and for their families.”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem echoed Vance’s statement, posting on X that “while we don’t know motive yet, we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop. Please pray for the victims and their families.”

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