There have been “multiple injuries and fatalities” in a shooting at an immigration facility in Texas, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said.<\/p>\n
The attack happened on Wednesday morning at a Dallas field office for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).<\/p>\n
“Details are still emerging but we can confirm there were multiple injuries and fatalities,” said Noem on X.<\/p>\n
She added that the shooter had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The incident follows a string of attacks on ICE facilities across the US in recent months.<\/p>\n
“While we don’t know motive yet, we know that our ICE law enforcement is facing unprecedented violence against them,” Noem said. “It must stop.”<\/p>\n
Preliminary information suggests a sniper carried out the shooting from outside the facility and hit victims in a “secure detainee location”, Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told CNN.<\/p>\n
He said three individuals were “down”, including the suspected shooter.<\/p>\n
“We’re not sure on their condition,” Lyons said.<\/p>\n
Last month shots were fired at ICE offices in San Antonio, Texas, in what investigators described as a “targeted attack” against federal employees.<\/p>\n
No injuries were reported in that incident, which ICE blamed on “political rhetoric” and “misinformation” about the Trump administration’s detention policies.<\/p>\n
Another shooting occurred on the 4 July public holiday at an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, after a protest escalated into a faceoff with police. An officer shot in the neck survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been “multiple injuries and fatalities” in a shooting at an immigration facility in Texas, Department of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-166185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}