FBI special agent says suspect ‘intended to kill Ice agents’
FBI special agent in charge of the Dallas field office, Joe Rothrock, said that Jahn “intended to kill Ice agents” as he fired at “transport vehicles carrying Ice personnel, federal agents and detainees”.
Rothrock noted that the suspect also fired multiple shots into the windows of the office building where “numerous Ice employees do their jobs every day”.
Key events
Per the White House pool, President Erdoğan of Turkey has finished with his meetings in Washington and is flying back home.
Later, Donald Trump will welcome prime minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan for a meeting. Sharif will be making a stop in DC as part of his wider visit to the US, to address the United Nations general assembly.
Charles said the detainees who were wounded in Wednesday’s attacks would receive due process, but stopped short of saying what their immigration status is currently.
Officials say shooter used ‘Ice tracking apps’ to monitor agents’ movements
Officials today said they believe Jahn acted alone, but their investigation is ongoing.
Ice official Marcos Charles, who is the executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations, said that the shooter used “Ice tracking apps” to monitor the movement of federal agents.
Charles characterized the apps as “a casting call to invite bad actors to attack law enforcement officers”.
“It’s no different than giving a hitman the location of their intended target, and this is exactly what we saw happen in Dallas yesterday,” Charles said. “The media has been amplifying these apps, even as we warned them, it would only lead to more attacks on law enforcement. We truly wish we didn’t have to say, ‘I told you so’, but here we are.”
FBI special agent says suspect ‘intended to kill Ice agents’
FBI special agent in charge of the Dallas field office, Joe Rothrock, said that Jahn “intended to kill Ice agents” as he fired at “transport vehicles carrying Ice personnel, federal agents and detainees”.
Rothrock noted that the suspect also fired multiple shots into the windows of the office building where “numerous Ice employees do their jobs every day”.
US attorney says shooter was targeting Ice personnel but there is no evidence he was in ‘any specific group or entity’
Speaking now is acting US attorney for the northern district of Texas, Nancy Larson, who said that the FBI found “a collection of notes” at Jahn’s residence.
“He wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against Ice personnel and to maximize property damage at the facility,” Larson said. “It seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees or harm them. It’s clear from these notes that he was targeting Ice agents and Ice personnel.”
Larson added that “the tragic irony” of Jahn’s “evil plot” was that a detainee was killed, and two others were left in critical condition.
While Larson said that the suspect’s words were “definitively anti-Ice”, authorities did not find evidence of membership in “any specific group or entity”.
Officials confirm name of suspect in Dallas Ice facility shooting
Today’s press conference has begun, and authorities confirm the suspect is Joshua Jahn, 29, of Texas.
Law enforcement said that about 3 o’clock in the morning on Wednesday the suspect “was seen driving on footage with a large ladder on his car”. They believe that is what he used to position himself on top of the building.
As we bring you the latest from Dallas, my colleague Eric Berger has more about the FBI’s investigation.
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The FBI said on Thursday that the suspect in the shooting had engaged in a “high degree of planning” before the attack.
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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 (DHS) facilities.
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Patel also said that the suspect conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the “Charlie Kirk Shot Video” in recent days, referring back to the murder of the rightwing activist and youth politics leader who was shot dead at an event in Utah earlier this month.
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Patel further posted of the Texas suspect: “Between 8/19 – 8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of Ice agents. One of the handwritten notes recovered read, ‘Hopefully this will give Ice agents real terror, to think, “is there a sniper”? about to fire from a roof.”
A reminder, that one detainee was killed in Wednesday’s shooting, while two more were severely injured. The identities of the victims in have not yet been named. No federal agents were wounded in the attack, according to authorities.
Officials are expected to hold a news conference on the shooting at an Ice detention facility in Dallas that killed one person and left two people injured.
We’ll bring you updates from the briefing as we get them.
Richard Luscombe
The justice department’s purge of federal prosecutors deemed to be critical of Donald Trump has reached the Miami US attorney’s office, where a “rising star” of the department was terminated this week, according to the Miami Herald.
Will Rosenzweig was fired in a “terse” email from attorney general Pam Bondi as he celebrated the Jewish Rosh Hashanah holiday with his family on Tuesday, the newspaper said.
The 39-year-old is the third federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida “to be summarily fired by the Bondi-led justice department” since Trump started his second term as president in January.
Rosenzweig missed the message and only found out he had been fired when his office cell phone stopped working and he called in to find out why, the Herald said.
Rightwing agitator Laura Loomer celebrated Rosenzweig’s dismissal in a post to X on Wednesday, reposting a message from the conservative commentator Natalie Winters that claimed he “secretly ran anti-Trump blog for years”.
The Herald cited “multiple sources” that said Rosenzweig posted criticisms of Trump to social media beginning in 2017, while he was in private practice and before he joined the justice department.
Two other Miami federal prosecutors, Michael Thakur and Anne McNamara, were fired within days of Trump’s January inauguration, among more than a dozen attorneys and officials seemingly punished for working on cases against him prior to his November 2024 reelection.
According to the White House press pool, the president has emerged from his meeting with Turkey’s president Erdoğan.
When asked about how the meeting went, Trump said “great” before giving a thumbs up to reporters.
Utah court appoints attorney to man charged with killing Charlie Kirk
A Utah court has appointed an attorney to represent Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with shooting and killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, after they determined he couldn’t afford private counsel.
“This action fulfills the Commission’s constitutional responsibility to ensure that individuals accused of a crime—who cannot afford legal representation—are provided with a qualified defense,” a spokesperson for Utah County said in a statement.
The court named Kathryn Nester as Robinson’s counsel moving forward.
Trump’s false assertion that London could introduce sharia law is ‘nonsense’, says UK’s Starmer in rare rebuke
Britain’s prime minister Keir Starmer has rejected Donald Trump’s recent false assertion that there was a push to apply sharia law in London, calling it “nonsense” and defending London mayor Sadiq Khan in a rare criticism of the US president.
At the United Nations earlier this week, Trump delivered a blistering and sweeping criticism of immigration policies in Europe in which he singled out the UK capital, falsely claiming “now they want to go to sharia law” and calling Khan a “terrible, terrible mayor”.
“The idea of the introduction of sharia law is nonsense and Sadiq Khan is a very good man,” Starmer told ITV London. He added that there are few things he disagrees with Trump on, “but I’m very clear, this is one of them”.
Khan in 2016 became the first Muslim to be elected mayor of London. He has since won two more mayoral elections and has the largest personal mandate of any British politician, something Trump usually holds in high regard.
The US president’s comments this week were the latest in a long-running public feud between the two men that goes back to at least 2017, when Khan criticised Trump for pledging a travel ban on a number of majority-Muslim countries. Trump has called Khan “a nasty person” who has “done a terrible job” and rightwing commentators in the US have routinely attacked crime rates in London and the diversity of the capital’s population.
Trump’s surprise criticism of Britain on Tuesday was particularly jarring as it came only a week after he gushed about the US-UK relationship during his unprecedented second state visit, in which he was treated to the full array of British pageantry including a white-tie banquet at Windsor Castle hosted by King Charles.
Khan responded to Trump’s comments this week by accusing him of being “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic”, and pointed to data that shows a record number of Americans are settling in Britain.
He said liberal US citizens identified with London because of the city’s “fundamental values, like adhering to the rule of law, being proud of our diversity and championing the rights of minority communities”.
