Mortal shots in Dallas’s ice installation follows the trend of snipe -type incidents: experts

As a reason remains under investigation in the fatal sniper type shooting in an immigration and customs field office of Dallas (ICE) this week, experts in application of the law said that the incident is part of a terrifying tendency of shooters who hold rifles aimed at politicians, police and others from long distances.

Since an alleged murderer tried to kill President Donald Trump during a campaign demonstration in July 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania, at least seven sniper -type incidents, have developed throughout the country, including the shooting of September 10 that affirmed the life of the conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, according to ABC News reports.

While such shootings have been part of the history of the United States, including the murders of President John F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. In the 1960s, experts in application of the law told ABC News that they have never seen so many snipe -type incidents in a period of time.

“I think this is the next chapter, if you, in our history of violence, specifically active shooter type situations,” Jesse Hambrick, a sheriff and an expert in contrast with Georgia, told ABC News.

The last incident occurred on Wednesday morning when the 29 -year -old suspect, identified by federal authorities such as Joshua Jahn de Fairview, Texas, opened fire in a Dallas ice installation, killing a detainee and leaving two other critical injured, officials said. The victims were shot in a Sallyport discovered at the facilities, authorities said.

Jahn allegedly planned the attack for months and opened fire from the roof of a private office building with a view to the installation of ice, using a 8 mm bolt action rifle that he legally bought in August, Joe Rothrock, the special FBI agent in charge of the office of the office Dallas, at the press conference of the afternoon on Thursday afternoon.

Rothrock described the shooting as an “directed ambush style attack” and that the suspect was dedicated to a significant and high degree of planning prior to the attack, including the target building investigation and the use of applications to trace the location of ice agents.

Federal officials said that the suspect, an American citizen who died from suicide, sprayed the length of the building with shots and left behind writings that lead the researchers to believe that he wanted to shoot the ice agents, not the detainees and cause terror, federal officials said.

“Hopefully this gives ice agents a real terror, to think, ‘Is there a sniper with AP? [armor-piercing] Rounds on the roof? “, The suspect allegedly wrote in a handwritten note, according to FBI director Kash Patel.

Patel revealed in a social networks publication on Thursday that the suspect also made multiple searches for ballistics and ‘Charlie Kirk’ video before carrying out the attack.

Like the suspect in the Kirk shooting, which recorded the Shell housings found on the scene with messages, including “Hey Fascist! Catch! -The authorities said that the suspect in the shooting at the Dallas Ice facilities also wrote a message in at least one glued housing found in the crime scene that said” Anti-Uce “.

Like some of the other snipers who have carried out recent attacks, the suspect seemed prepared to die, Hambrick told ABC News.

“Here is the reality, honestly, if someone is not afraid of losing their own life, it makes them almost impossible to prevent the lives of another person,” said Hambrick.

The shooting at ICE facilities occurred only two weeks after an armed man perched on a building at Utah Valley University in OEM, Utah, shot and killed Kirk as the 31 -year co -founder of the Conservative Organization of Grass Roots, Turning Point USA was talking to a large crowd in an outdoor event. The suspect, identified as Tyler Robinson, 22, was arrested and accused of capital murder.

“The long -range threat is new, and I think everything is due to Butler,” said Don Mihalek, a former senior agent of the US secret service, referring to the attack of July 2024 against Trump, who killed a disgust and wounded two others before the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crook, 20, received a fatal shot by a secret service counter. “I think the Butler incident is being imitated in many ways by other people.”

Less than a month after the attempted murder against Trump, a sniper armed with an AR-15 rifle opened fire from an elevated step along the interstate 75 of Kentucky near London, hitting a dozen vehicles and hurting eight people, authorities said. The suspect, Joseph Couch, 32, a former member of the Army Reserve, was found dead by a self -inflicted gunshot wound after an 11 -day human hunt, authorities said.

On September 15, 2024, only two months after Trump’s first attempt, an agent of the Secret Service frustrated another murder attempt on the president in Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The agent saw the cannon of a rifle that stood out from the fence line and opened fire against the shooter, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, which made him flee from the area. Roth was sentenced by a jury on Tuesday and faces a life sentence.

Several of the recent snipers attacks have attacked firefighters and law agents. On June 29, 2025, a 20 -year -old suspect, identified as Wess Roley, allegedly ambushed and killed two firefighters in Coeur D’A Alene, Idaho, after he replied, the authorities said. Later, Roley was found dead by suicide, authorities said.

On August 7, an armed man identified by the authorities as Carmine Faino, 61, fired and wounded two soldiers from the state of Pennsylvania in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, with a rifle that supposedly fired “from a tactical superiority position” after calling 911 to report shooting near a house that shared with a girlfriend who had died, the officials had died. Faino was a deadly shot by a special emergency response team, authorities said.

Three days after the attack of Pennsylvania, a sniper opened fire against the disease control and prevention campus in Atlanta, authorities said. The suspect, Patrick White, 30, according to the authorities, blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for getting sick and depressed, died from suicide.

Mihalek said that such shootings in snipers have a “tremendous challenge” so that the police prevents it, particularly at a time when attacks on ambush against the police are increasing dramatically.

In A report Released on September 2, the National Police Order of the Police declared that 229 officers have been shot in the fulfillment of duty so far in 2025, 31 fatally. In 2024, 342 officers were shot in the fulfillment of duty, including 50 who were killed, compared to 46 in 2023, according to the report.

According to the report, there have been at least 50 attacks on the style of the ambush against the application of the law, which results in 66 officers, 15 of them fatally, according to the report. In All 2024There were 61 attacks on the style of ambush against agents of the law throughout the country, which resulted in 79 officers fired, 18 fatally, according to the National Order of the Fraternal Police.

Amid the repression of the Trump administration against undocumented immigrants in the country, the National Security Department said in a statement this week that ICE officers face a 1,000% increase in assaults against them since January.

In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, ICE’s interim director, Todd Lyons, said security protocols are being increased in ICE facilities throughout the country.

“Obviously, the next step for us is to make sure that our officers are safe. That is my greatest fear every night, especially with these increases. [in assaults]that everyone gets home safely every night. We have to make sure that our buildings and facilities are protected, “Lyons said.

Hambrick told ABC News that in the current threat environment, the law enforcement agencies throughout the country should reassess their security tactics, including work with owners in their communities to avoid easy access to roofs.

“The police have to think now, ‘when I enter an environment where I will be, I have to look up, and that is not natural,” said Hambrick. “I have to look around 360 degrees, and I need to secure those roofs.”

Mihalek said he believes that the use of drones to scan the upper part of the buildings could become routine and help the law enforcement agencies to protect officers.

“Drones can become a standard procedure in many of these operations of application of the law, especially for ICE,” said Mihalek.