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A shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday morning has resulted in at least one fatality and multiple injuries, according to US officials.
“There was a shooting this morning at the Dallas @ICEgov Field Office,” US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X.
Noem added that there had been “multiple injuries and fatalities”.
But the Dallas Police Department posted on the social media network that one person had died at the scene after a “suspect opened fire at a government building from an adjacent building” early in the morning, according to a preliminary investigation.
Two people were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds, while the suspected shooter also died, the police added.
The victims were “potentially detainees, not ICE law enforcement”, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told Fox News. “Some individuals are in critical condition,” she added.
Noem said the shooter was “deceased by a self-inflicted gun shot wound” and that the motive was currently unknown. But she said that ICE had been facing “unprecedented violence”.
US vice-president JD Vance condemned the incident in a post on X, saying: “The obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE, must stop.”
US President Donald Trump has overseen an immigration crackdown since the start of his second term in January.
ICE’s activities have sparked fear in many immigrant communities, with officers arresting suspects outside their homes and during their commutes. Trump’s major tax and spending bill, which was passed in July, allocated an additional $75bn to the agency.
