A sniper opened fire at a Texas ICE facility at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning while officers were transferring detainees, leaving two detainees dead and a third in critical condition.
The shooter was armed with a rifle on the roof. When agents approached him, he shot and killed himself.
In an X post shortly after the shooting happened, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote, “No enforcement officers were injured. There was a shooting this morning at the Dallas @ICEgov Field Office.”
Noem added that there is no known motive yet, but “our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them. It must stop.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said in an X post, “My team and I are closely monitoring the situation at the ICE Detention Facility in Dallas. We are praying for the swift r