The interim director of ICE, Todd Lyons, called the shooting on Wednesday morning at an immigration and control center of Dallas, who killed a detainee and critically injured two, his “worst nightmare.”
For Lyons, who previously worked in a Dallas Ice office, the shooting “really hit home.”
“Seeing the photos today, some of the bullets were in an office that used to have there,” he said about “The Best History with Tom flames.” “It’s just a horrible feeling. People always ask me what keeps me awake at night. It is the safety of ice men and women.”
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Three detainees were shot when the shots sounded around 6:40 am on Wednesday. A victim died in the place, and the other two were taken to a hospital with gunshot wounds, Dallas police said. No ice agent were injured.
“My heart turns off that the family of the detainee. We are accused of his protection, his custody. None of that should happen,” Lyons said.
The shooter, who multiple senior officials in charge of enforcing the law reported on the investigation identified as Joshua Jahn, had fired from a nearby roof or a high position to Puerto Sally of the field office, ICE said.
The shooter was found dead with a self -inflicted gunshot wound, said Ice. A bullet found near the shooter had messages that were “anti-hie” in nature, said the FBI Dallas office, calling for the attack an act of “directed violence.”
Lyons said he learned that the shooter shot bullets “indiscriminately”, surprising windows and lobby doors, and that the shooter shot at the port of Sally, where the detainees are brought. The victims were shot while in vehicles, he said.
“The detainees were not out of a vehicle. The shooter was firing at random vehicles inside. They were still beaten inside the vehicle,” Lyons said. “There were some brave men and women on the floor who entered those trucks, they took those detainees while they were under fire.”
He said that the shooting was particularly alarming because it happened in the morning travel hours, near an interest, apartments and businesses, which means that more people could have been injured.
“This was an attack directed against the ice, but this could really have hurt anyone,” Lyons said.
Lyons said there has been an increase in attacks “in ice officers and agents throughout the country.”
“It is quite bad that ice men and women have to leave and put themselves in danger, making their mission of application of the law, but never thinking that in our own installation, our own location, we take a sniper fire in an important city,” he said.
His message to ice agents is: “I am totally supported.”
“My mission number 1 is to make sure they go home with their families every night,” he said.
