The shooter who hoped to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the ICE Facility in Dallas, Texas, but instead murdered an illegal alien, left behind handwritten notes that said he acted alone. Handwritten notes also said he hoped to terrorize ICE agents.
FBI Director Kash Patel released more information about the shooter, Joshua Jahn, while U.S. Attorney Nancy Larson of Texas’ Northern District divulged more about the notes. Frighteningly, Jahn used a smartphone application to help target the agents, Patel said.
That fact raises questions about the culpability of ICEBlock and other such applications, which help radicals disclose ICE raids and illegal aliens avoid them. CNN gave ICEBlock a glowing review in June, prompting Attorney General Pam Bondi to warn that the app and its creator were endangering agents.
“High Degree” of Planning
After murdering one illegal and wounding two others at the facility’s sally port, Jahn, a 29-year-old far left radical, turned the rifle on himself. (Early reporting from the Department of Homeland Security said two illegals were murdered, but that has been updated.) One bullet casing found near the rifle bore the legend, “ANTI-ICE.”
Today, Patel divulged more about the shooting.
“The perp downloaded a document titled ‘Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management’ containing a list of DHS facilities,” Patel wrote:
– He conducted multiple searches of ballistics and the “Charlie Kirk Shot Video” between 9/23-9/24.
– Between 8/19-8/24, he searched apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents.
– One of the handwritten notes recovered read, “Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP rounds on that roof?’”
– Further accumulated evidence to this point indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning.
The murderer’s mentioning Kirk and writing on the bullet casing, along with his firing from a nearby rooftop, suggest a copycat killing.
Federal prosecutor Larson said one of Jahn’s notes “explicitly states, ‘Yes, it was just me.’”
“That statement appears to be correct at this point in the investigation,” Larson said.
The notes included a “game plan of the attack and target areas at the facility,” she said. Jahn called ICE employees “people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck,” and wrote that he “intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel and to maximize property damage,” Larson said.
He did not intend to shoot the illegals, she said.
Larson called the murders “terrorism”:
It’s clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel. … He also hoped his actions would give ICE agents real terror of being gunned down, and he did this to induce constant stress in their lives. He hoped his actions would terrorize ICE employees and interfere with their work, which he called human trafficking. And this, what he did, is the very definition of terrorism.
The Apps
Patel’s noting that Jahn used “apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents” suggests they might have played a key role in the attack.
CNN and CBS touted them.
In June, CNN offered a tongue-bath piece about Joshua Aaron, who created ICEBlock.
“ICEBlock currently has more than 20,000 users, many of whom are in Los Angeles, where controversial, large-scale deportation efforts have taken place,” CNN reported:
“When I saw what was happening in this country, I wanted to do something to fight back,” Aaron told CNN, adding that the deportation efforts feel, to him, reminiscent of Nazi Germany. “We’re literally watching history repeat itself.”
CBS News described the equally subversive Coqui app and how it helped a Venezuelan illegal called Oscar avoid ICE agents.
“To do his job, Oscar relies on the app Coqui, which shows him if ICE agents are nearby,” the once-respected network reported. “On a recent trip hauling horses from New York to South Carolina, he spotted ICE activity, forcing him to take an alternate route.”
After CNN’s report about ICEBlock, Bondi appeared on Fox talker Sean Hannity’s program with a warning for the far-left Aaron. She told Hannity:
Our ICE agents, all of our federal agents who are working hand in hand on these task force[s] — our federal agents from the Justice Department could be injured.
He’s giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are. And he cannot do that. And we are looking at it, we are looking at him. And he better watch out, because that’s not a protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country.
When the CNN story appeared, X lit up with posts from those dismayed that the network would promote the app.
“Unreal,” Libs of TikTok wrote in June:
CNN is now promoting an app which tracks the movement of ICE agents to warn illegals.
ICE agents face a 500% increase in assault and threats.
CNN knows exactly what they’re doing.
Now that increase in assaults is 1,000 percent.
The question is whether the apps’ creators can be prosecuted for aiding and abetting illegals, obstruction of justice, and other federal crimes.
As well, should any of those illegals be rapists or murderers, and should they rape or murder anyone else because the apps helped them avoid ICE, the apps — and their creators — would at least be partly morally culpable for the crimes.
