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Update, 9/25/2025, 6:56 a.m.: This article has been updated to include new information on the suspect in the shooting at the Dallas ICE Field Office on Wednesday.
Authorities have identified 29-year-old North Texas resident Joshua Jahn as the suspect in the shooting at the Dallas ICE Field Office on Wednesday. NBC News confirmed the identity with multiple sources investigating the shooting that has left one detainee dead and two injured. The shooter was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound by Dallas Police shortly after 911 calls were made reporting the incident.
According to NBC News, Jahn has recently been associated with an address in Oklahoma and had previous residences in Texas. NBC 5 has confirmed Jahn’s parents live in North Texas and that federal agents were outside their house on Wednesday. In 2016, NBC says that Jahn was charged in Texas with felony delivery of marijuana and that he later pleaded guilty.
Before Jahn was identified publicly, FBI Director Kash Patel posted a photo to X showing bullets at the crime scene with anti-ICE messaging etched on at least one. NBC reports that Jahn is registered to vote as an Independent in Oklahoma and that his brother said the suspect “was not especially interested in politics and had not voiced opinions to his family opposing the federal immigration enforcement agency.”
The New York Times looked into Jahn’s political and online activity, finding that he “voted in a Democratic primary in March 2020 in Texas, had an extensive online profile,” the report stated. “But he showed little obvious interest in politics based on what has been uncovered so far. He has at least two Reddit accounts, where he talked about video games, cars, ‘South Park’ and marijuana.”
The alleged markings on the bullets came two weeks after early reports following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk suggested that bullets found at the Utah crime scene were marked with politically charged messaging.
Joshua Jahn’s brother, Noah Jahn said his brother was not a marksman and seemed surprised his brother was capable of making the type of shot police say he did.
Fox 4 reports that although Jahn may have been living in Oklahoma recently, he was a resident of Fairview, in Collin County near McKinney, and that Fairview police are assisting in the investigation.
