The person in charge of the shooting against the facilities of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE) in Dallas (Texas) that left two dead, including him, acted alone and legally bought the rifle he used, said the FBI on Thursday.
The authorities officially identified Joshua Jahn, 29, as the person responsible for the attack on Wednesday, when he fired from a terrace against the ICE building in Dallas and hit a truck carrying detainees, leaving a dead immigrant and two other seriously injured.
The bullets also impacted the windows of the federal building, but did not reach any worker.
“We believe that Jahn acted alone,” FBI agent Joe Rothrock in charge of the investigation said Thursday, which is still ongoing.
In a note, the shooter, an American citizen without apparent links with immigrants, had written: “Yes, I was only me and my brain,” said the prosecutor of the northern district of Texas, Nancy Larson.
The weapon used in the attack, a lock rifle of eight millimeters, was legally bought last August by the shooter. It has not been determined how many bullets managed to shoot, before taking his life.
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Shooting in an ICE immigration office in Texas leaves a dead person and two injured
Rothrock stressed that the investigations have determined that Jahn planned the attack months in advance, dedicated time to find the directions of the ICE offices in Dallas and follow the applications that report the presence of ICE operations in the area.
So far the clearest motivation that led the shooter to shoot against the facilities is that he wanted to “cause harm” and terrorize the ICE agents, said the FBI agent citing the manuscripts left by Jahn.
In that sense, Larson explained that no evidence has been found that the shooter belonged to “no specific group or entity”, which contradicts the accusations of President Donald Trump, which this Thursday blamed the attack on the radical left.
Family members and colleagues of the young man told the NBC medium that Jahn had not expressed political opinions or referred to ICE.
In Jahn manuscripts, he also did not mention another specific government agency apart from ICE.
The shooter would not have an apparent relationship with any of the immigrants detained.
As part of his plan, the man would also have erased his fingerprint and evidence of electronic devices, something he pointed out in another note in which he wanted good luck to researchers.
Jahn died from a self -inflicted gunshot wound.
The identities of the dead immigrant and the two injured have not been revealed by the authorities until the authorities of their original countries and their families are contacted.
With EFE information.
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