Dallas ICE shooter Joshua Jahn repeatedly search for Charlie Kirk shooting video…as his shocking handwritten note is revealed
The shooter who opened fire on an ICE van in Dallas and killed a migrant repeatedly searched for footage of the Charlie Kirk assassination, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed.
Patel wrote in an X post on Thursday that the shooter, identified as 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, ‘conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the “Charlie Kirk Shot Video”‘ in the two days before the shooting on Wednesday.
The gunman’s obsession with Kirk’s shooting was revealed through devices seized by the FBI, Patel said.
The devices also showed that Jahn downloaded a document titled ‘Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management’ containing a list of DHS facilities.
In the week before the shooting on Wednesday, which also hospitalized two migrants in ICE custody, Jahn had also searched for apps that track ICE agents, Patel said.
Jahn also left a handwritten note that read: ‘Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?”
‘Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning,’ Patel concluded.
It comes after Patel previously shared an image of the bullets used in the shooting on the ICE facility, which showed shells engraved with blue ink reading: ‘Anti-ICE’
Joshua Jahn, 29, the shooter who opened fire on an ICE van in Dallas and killed a migrant on Wednesday, repeatedly searched for footage of the Charlie Kirk assassination, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed
On Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel shared an image of the bullets used in the shooting, reading: ‘Anti-ICE’
Jahn, 29, was named as the gunman who opened fire on the ICE detention center around 7am Wednesday morning, before killing himself as cops descended on him.
Law enforcement said that the sniper perched on a roof adjacent to the facility and rained bullets on the migrants as they were being transported in an unmarked ICE van.
After Jahn was identified as the alleged shooter, his brother Noah told NBC News that he did not believe his brother was especially interested in politics and had not voiced his opinions on immigration before.
‘He didn’t have strong feelings about ICE as far as I knew,’ his brother said.
Noah said his brother was unemployed but had previously worked as a coder, and was planning on moving in with their parents in Oklahoma.
Jahn has been pictured in a mugshot from his arrest in 2015, when he was hit with felony charges for delivering marijuana in an amount greater than 1/4 ounce.
He was a registered independent in the 2024 election, but last voted in the Democratic primaries in March 2020, records showed.
Jahn conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the ‘Charlie Kirk Shot Video’ in the two days before the shooting on Wednesday, it has been revealed
Jahn was arrested in 2015 and was hit with felony charges for delivering marijuana in an amount greater than 1/4 ounce. He was a registered independent in the 2024 election
The alleged shooter’s brother reportedly spoke before he knew that his brother had been identified as the sniper, and described him as ‘unique’ without elaborating.
‘I didn’t think he was politically interested,’ he continued, saying he had last seen him two weeks before the shooting on Wednesday and nothing seemed unusual.
‘He wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew.’
The siblings grew up in Allen, Texas, and spent their childhoods attending the Boy Scouts, the brother said.
He added that his brother knew how to use a rifle that his parents owned, but insisted that ‘he’s not a marksman, that’s for sure.’
Asked about the ICE facility shooting, he remarked: ‘He would not be able to make any shots like that.’
