ICE corrects and says only one migrant died in the attack on its Dallas office

Austin.- The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rectified this Wednesday and said that only one migrant died, instead of two, during the attack on its office in Dallas (Texas) and that two more are in critical condition.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which ICE falls under, corrected the information in a statement and assured that only one person has died, when it had previously confirmed two deaths apart from the attacker.

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This statement, which sets the balance of the event at one deceased migrant, two injured migrants and a second fatality (the shooter, who took his own life), is the latest in a long series of confusing and contradictory communications that have occurred and overlapped today in relation to the shooting. Although there is still no official confirmation, the NBC network, citing law enforcement, says the shooter has been identified as Joshua Jahn, a 29-year-old man. According to DHS in a statement, the suspect fired “indiscriminately” towards the facilities from the terrace of an adjacent building and hit a van where the migrants were. Both the FBI and DHS have assured that investigations into this event are ongoing, but revealed that it is being investigated as an act of “selective” violence. According to the two federal agencies, authorities found a series of cartridges near the suspect that had the message: “ANTI-ICE” written on them. FBI Director Kash Patel posted on his X platform account an image of the alleged cartridges, where the inscription on one of the bullets can be seen in blue ink. Although the authorities stressed that they still do not know the reason behind the attack, several officials from the Donald Trump administration and Republican politicians, including Vice President JD Vance, immediately linked it to “violence” and threats against “law enforcement.” This is the third similar incident so far this year in Texas. In July, authorities charged 10 people with participating in a shooting in front of a migrant detention center in Alvarado, which left a police officer injured and which the Department of Justice considered an “organized attack”. That same month, federal agents killed a man who fired at a Border Patrol building in McAllen, where he caused a crossfire that left at least one person injured.