DALLAS, September 24: — A gunman opened fire at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas on Wednesday, injuring three people before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons confirmed the incident during a live interview. “It could be employees, it could be civilians that were visiting the facility, it could be detainees,” Lyons said. “At this point, we’re still working through that.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said investigators were still piecing together details but confirmed “multiple injuries and fatalities” at the field office. She added that the motive had not yet been determined, though she noted a recent rise in incidents targeting ICE personnel.
The attack unfolded just after 6:30 a.m. when Dallas Fire-Rescue crews were dispatched following reports of a shooting at or near the ICE field office, department spokesperson Jason L. Evans said in an email. “This remains an active and ongoing incident,” Evans wrote, saying he did not yet have confirmed details to release.
The ICE building sits along Interstate 35 East, just southwest of Dallas Love Field Airport, a busy hub for commercial flights in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The area is lined with hotels catering to travelers. Traffic cameras showed six lanes of the normally congested freeway brought to a standstill, with cars and semitrailers halted on the exit road leading to the facility.
Dozens of emergency vehicles, including police cruisers, ambulances and fire trucks, were stationed near the building as authorities secured the perimeter. ICE and Homeland Security officials declined to provide further information about the victims or the shooter.
The violence comes after a series of recent attacks on immigration facilities in Texas. On July 4, a police officer was shot in the neck when attackers dressed in military-style clothing opened fire outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, southwest of Dallas. Federal prosecutors later charged at least 11 people in connection with the assault.
Just three days later, a man with an assault rifle sprayed dozens of rounds at federal agents leaving a Border Patrol facility in McAllen. The shooter, identified as Ryan Louis Mosqueda, wounded a responding officer before being killed by authorities. Officers later discovered additional weapons, ammunition and tactical gear inside his vehicle.
The Dallas attack has further rattled ICE staff as officials brace for what Lyons described as a “deeply troubling” escalation in violence directed at immigration enforcement agencies.
