FBI special agent says suspect ‘intended to kill Ice agents’<\/p>\n
FBI special agent in charge of the Dallas field office, Joe Rothrock, said that Jahn \u201cintended to kill Ice agents\u201d as he fired at \u201ctransport vehicles carrying Ice personnel, federal agents and detainees\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rothrock noted that the suspect also fired multiple shots into the windows of the office building where \u201cnumerous Ice employees do their jobs every day\u201d.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.17 EDT<\/p>\n Key events<\/p>\n Show key events only<\/p>\n Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/p>\n Per the White House pool, President Erdo\u011fan of Turkey has finished with his meetings in Washington and is flying back home.<\/p>\n Later, Donald Trump will welcome prime minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan for a meeting. Sharif will be making a stop in DC as part of his wider visit to the US, to address the United Nations general assembly.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.30 EDT<\/p>\n Charles said the detainees who were wounded in Wednesday\u2019s attacks would receive due process, but stopped short of saying what their immigration status is currently.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Officials say shooter used ‘Ice tracking apps’ to monitor agents’ movements<\/p>\n Officials today said they believe Jahn acted alone, but their investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n Ice official Marcos Charles, who is the executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations, said that the shooter used \u201cIce tracking apps\u201d to monitor the movement of federal agents.<\/p>\n Charles characterized the apps as \u201ca casting call to invite bad actors to attack law enforcement officers\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s no different than giving a hitman the location of their intended target, and this is exactly what we saw happen in Dallas yesterday,\u201d Charles said. \u201cThe media has been amplifying these apps, even as we warned them, it would only lead to more attacks on law enforcement. We truly wish we didn\u2019t have to say, \u2018I told you so\u2019, but here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.30 EDT<\/p>\n FBI special agent says suspect ‘intended to kill Ice agents’<\/p>\n FBI special agent in charge of the Dallas field office, Joe Rothrock, said that Jahn \u201cintended to kill Ice agents\u201d as he fired at \u201ctransport vehicles carrying Ice personnel, federal agents and detainees\u201d.<\/p>\n Rothrock noted that the suspect also fired multiple shots into the windows of the office building where \u201cnumerous Ice employees do their jobs every day\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.17 EDT<\/p>\n US attorney says shooter was targeting Ice personnel but there is no evidence he was in ‘any specific group or entity’<\/p>\n Speaking now is acting US attorney for the northern district of Texas, Nancy Larson, who said that the FBI<\/a> found \u201ca collection of notes\u201d at Jahn\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n \u201cHe wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against Ice personnel and to maximize property damage at the facility,\u201d Larson said. \u201cIt seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees or harm them. It\u2019s clear from these notes that he was targeting Ice agents and Ice personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n Larson added that \u201cthe tragic irony\u201d of Jahn\u2019s \u201cevil plot\u201d was that a detainee was killed, and two others were left in critical condition.<\/p>\n While Larson said that the suspect\u2019s words were \u201cdefinitively anti-Ice\u201d, authorities did not find evidence of membership in \u201cany specific group or entity\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.49 EDT<\/p>\n Officials confirm name of suspect in Dallas Ice facility shooting<\/p>\n Today\u2019s press conference has begun, and authorities confirm the suspect is Joshua Jahn, 29, of Texas.<\/p>\n Law enforcement said that about 3 o\u2019clock in the morning on Wednesday the suspect \u201cwas seen driving on footage with a large ladder on his car\u201d. They believe that is what he used to position himself on top of the building.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.10 EDT<\/p>\n As we bring you the latest from Dallas, my colleague Eric Berger has more about the FBI\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n The FBI<\/a> said on Thursday that the suspect in the shooting<\/a> had engaged in a \u201chigh degree of planning\u201d before the attack.<\/p>\n The FBI director, Kash Patel, said in a post<\/a> on X that the alleged perpetrator downloaded a document titled \u201cDallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management\u201d containing a list of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities.<\/p>\n Patel also said that the suspect conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the \u201cCharlie Kirk Shot Video\u201d in recent days, referring back to the murder<\/a> of the rightwing activist and youth politics leader who was shot dead at an event in Utah earlier this month.<\/p>\n Patel further posted of the Texas suspect: \u201cBetween 8\/19 \u2013 8\/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of Ice agents. One of the handwritten notes recovered read, \u2018Hopefully this will give Ice agents real terror, to think, \u201cis there a sniper\u201d? about to fire from a roof.\u201d<\/p>\n A reminder, that one detainee was killed in Wednesday\u2019s shooting, while two more were severely injured. The identities of the victims in have not yet been named. No federal agents were wounded in the attack, according to authorities.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Officials are expected to hold a news conference on the shooting at an Ice detention facility in Dallas that killed one person and left two people injured.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll bring you updates from the briefing as we get them.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a014.41 EDT<\/p>\n Richard Luscombe<\/p>\n The justice department\u2019s purge of federal prosecutors deemed to be critical of Donald Trump has reached the Miami US attorney\u2019s office, where a \u201crising star\u201d of the department was terminated this week, according to the Miami Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n Will Rosenzweig was fired in a \u201cterse\u201d email from attorney general Pam Bondi as he celebrated the Jewish Rosh Hashanah holiday with his family on Tuesday, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n Pam Bondi. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein\/Reuters<\/p>\n The 39-year-old is the third federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida \u201cto be summarily fired by the Bondi-led justice department\u201d since Trump started his second term as president in January.<\/p>\n Rosenzweig missed the message and only found out he had been fired when his office cell phone stopped working and he called in to find out why, the Herald said.<\/p>\n Rightwing agitator Laura Loomer celebrated Rosenzweig\u2019s dismissal in a post to X<\/a> on Wednesday, reposting a message from the conservative commentator Natalie Winters that claimed he \u201csecretly ran anti-Trump blog for years\u201d.<\/p>\n The Herald cited \u201cmultiple sources\u201d that said Rosenzweig posted criticisms of Trump to social media beginning in 2017, while he was in private practice and before he joined the justice department.<\/p>\n Two other Miami federal prosecutors, Michael Thakur and Anne McNamara, were fired within days of Trump\u2019s January inauguration<\/a>, among more than a dozen attorneys and officials seemingly punished for working on cases against him prior to his November 2024 reelection.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n According to the White House press pool, the president has emerged from his meeting with Turkey\u2019s president Erdo\u011fan.<\/p>\n When asked about how the meeting went, Trump said \u201cgreat\u201d before giving a thumbs up to reporters.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Utah court appoints attorney to man charged with killing Charlie Kirk<\/p>\n A Utah court has appointed an attorney to represent Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with shooting and killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, after they determined he couldn\u2019t afford private counsel.<\/p>\n \u201cThis action fulfills the Commission\u2019s constitutional responsibility to ensure that individuals accused of a crime\u2014who cannot afford legal representation\u2014are provided with a qualified defense,\u201d a spokesperson for Utah County said in a statement.<\/p>\n The court named Kathryn Nester as Robinson\u2019s counsel moving forward.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Trump’s false assertion that London could introduce sharia law is ‘nonsense’, says UK’s Starmer in rare rebuke<\/p>\n Britain\u2019s prime minister Keir Starmer has rejected Donald Trump\u2019s recent false assertion that there was a push to apply sharia law in London, calling it \u201cnonsense\u201d and defending London mayor Sadiq Khan in a rare criticism<\/a> of the US president.<\/p>\n At the United Nations earlier this week, Trump delivered a blistering and sweeping criticism<\/a> of immigration policies in Europe in which he singled out the UK capital, falsely claiming \u201cnow they want to go to sharia law\u201d and calling Khan a \u201cterrible, terrible mayor\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe idea of the introduction of sharia law is nonsense and Sadiq Khan is a very good man,\u201d Starmer told ITV London. He added that there are few things he disagrees with Trump on, \u201cbut I\u2019m very clear, this is one of them\u201d.<\/p>\n Khan in 2016 became the first Muslim to be elected mayor of London. He has since won two more mayoral elections and has the largest personal mandate of any British politician, something Trump usually holds in high regard.<\/p>\n The US president\u2019s comments this week were the latest in a long-running public feud between the two men that goes back to at least 2017, when Khan criticised Trump for pledging a travel ban on a number of majority-Muslim countries. Trump has called Khan \u201ca nasty person\u201d who has \u201cdone a terrible job\u201d and rightwing commentators in the US have routinely attacked crime rates in London and the diversity of the capital\u2019s population.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s surprise criticism of Britain<\/a> on Tuesday was particularly jarring<\/a> as it came only a week after he gushed about the US-UK relationship during his unprecedented second state visit<\/a>, in which he was treated to the full array of British pageantry<\/a> including a white-tie banquet at Windsor Castle hosted by King Charles.<\/p>\n Khan responded to Trump\u2019s comments this week by accusing him of being \u201cracist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic\u201d, and pointed to data that shows a record number of Americans are settling in Britain<\/a>.<\/p>\n He said liberal US citizens identified with London because of the city\u2019s \u201cfundamental values, like adhering to the rule of law, being proud of our diversity and championing the rights of minority communities\u201d.<\/p>\n