Shooter dead after killing at least 1, injuring others at Dallas ICE facility

A crap-shooter with a go opened discharge from a nearby roof onto a U.S. In-migration and custom Enforcement location in Dallas on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding two others before taking his own life, authorities said.

The exact motivation of the attack was not immediately known. The FBI said at a morning news conference that ammunition found at the scene contained anti-ICE messaging. The head of the agency, Kash Patel, released a photo on social media that shows a bullet containing the words "ANTI-ICE" written in what appears to be marker.

Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux told reporters that officers responded to a report of four people shot, with two dead, including the shooter.

Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin later told Fox News that no ICE agents were injured.

"We believe he was shooting at law enforcement and detainees from an apartment building," McLaughlin said. "Detainees were among the victims of the shooting."

The FBI said during a news conference Wednesday morning that it was investigating the shooting as "an act of targeted violence."

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

Officers first responded to a call to assist an officer on North Stemmons Freeway around 6:40 a.m. Local time Wednesday and a preliminary investigation determined that a person opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building, Dallas police spokesperson Jonathan E. Maner said in an earlier email.

Dozens of emergency vehicles were seen along a highway near the ICE facility, which sits along Interstate 35 East, just southwest of Dallas Love Field, a large commercial airport serving the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, and blocks from hotels catering to airport travellers.

Traffic cameras near the scene show six lanes of a normally busy freeway completely empty, with cars and semi-trailers at a halt on an interstate exit.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz decried the shooting during Wednesday's news briefing. "This must stop," Cruz said. "This is the third shooting in Texas directed at ICE or [Customs and Border Protection]."

The incident comes several months after a Fourth of July attack at a Texas immigration detention centre injured a police officer, who was shot in the neck.

Attackers dressed in black military-style clothing opened fire outside the Prairieland Detention Facility in Alvarado, southwest of Dallas, federal prosecutors have said. At least 11 people have been charged in connection with that attack.

A separate attack took place several days later, when a heavily armed man opened fire on federal agents with an assault rifle at a U.S. Border Patrol facility in Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, injuring a police officer before authorities shot and killed him. 

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