Overview

• Authorities say the gunman fired from the roof of a neighboring building around 6:40 a.m. local time and later died by suicide.
• The Department of Homeland Security most recently reported one detainee killed and two others wounded, with no ICE staff injured.
• Investigators are treating the case as a targeted act after finding ammunition inscribed with anti-ICE messages near the suspect.
• ICE’s acting director described the attacker as a sharpshooter firing from an elevated position several hundred meters away.
• Officials noted the shooting fits a recent pattern of threats and attacks on ICE and DHS facilities in Texas, prompting broad political condemnation.