Nancy Larson, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, confirmed the motive of the shooter who opened fire on a Dallas ICE facility on Thursday, one day after the attack.
‘”FBI agents executed a search warrant at the sniper’s residence yesterday, and there found a collection of notes. First, I want to point out that one of these notes or papers, the sniper explicitly states, ‘Yes, it was just me.’ That statement appears to be correct at this point in the investigation,” began Larson before continuing:
Notably, these loose notes included a game plan of the attack and target areas at the facility. He called the ICE employees, “people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck.” He wrote that he intended to maximize lethality against ICE personnel, and to maximize property damage at the facility. He hoped to minimize any collateral damage or injury to the detainees and any other innocent people. It seems that he did not intend to kill the detainees, or harm them. It’s clear from these notes that he was targeting ICE agents and ICE personnel. The tragic irony for his evil plot here is that it was a detainee who was killed and two other detainees that were injured when he fired into the sallyport. 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 shooter killed himself after mounting the attack before he could be apprehended on Wednesday. The motives of the shooter have been the subject of debate online, perhaps most notably by Pod Save America‘s Jon Favreau and Vice President JD Vance.
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