DALLAS – Dallas police and fire rescue teams are investigating a suspicious substance reported early Friday morning outside the Dallas U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.
Dallas ICE facility suspicious substance investigation
What we know:
Police received a call about the suspicious substance just before 7 a.m. Friday at the ICE facility, located near Interstate 35E and Mockingbird Lane. Dallas Fire-Rescue confirmed a Hazmat team is on the scene investigating the substance, and FOX 4 crews reported seeing the bomb squad preparing to examine the package.Â
What we don’t know:
Officials have not yet disclosed the nature of the substance, and no injuries or threats to the public have been reported at this time.
The backstory:
This is the same facility where a sniper killed two ICE detainees in an attack back in September. The FBI is investigating the shooting at the Dallas ICE facility on Sept. 24 as an act of targeted violence.
Officials said a sniper on the roof of a nearby building fired indiscriminately at the detention center, hitting three detainees who were arriving in a transport van. Two of those detainees were killed, and one other was critically injured. No law enforcement officers were hurt.
Sources identified the shooter as Joshua Jahn, 29, who had ties to North Texas and Oklahoma. Investigators said he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound as agents approached him.
Bullets reportedly found at the scene had an anti-ICE message and FBI officials said they found handwritten notes in Jahn’s home indicating he wanted to terrorize ICE employees.
The Source: Information in this article comes from Dallas Fire-Rescue and previous FOX 4 coverage.