Detainee killed, 2 others wounded in shooting at Dallas ICE facility

A shooter with a rifle opened fire from a nearby roof onto a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing two detainees and wounding another before taking his own life, authorities said.

The exact motivation for the attack was not immediately known. The head of the FBI, Kash Patel, released a photo on social media that shows a bullet found at the scene containing the words “ANTI-ICE” written in what appears to be marker.

The attack is the latest public, targeted killing in the US and comes two weeks after conservative leader Charlie Kirk was killed by a rifle-wielding shooter on a roof.

“The shooter fired indiscriminately at the ICE building, including at a van in the sally port where the victims were shot,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a release about the Dallas shooting.

The detainee who survived was in critical condition at a hospital, DHS said. No ICE agents were injured.

The FBI said during the news conference that it was investigating the shooting as “an act of targeted violence”. Little other information was given out at the news conference.