ALLEN, Texas — Dallas anti-ICE gunman Joshua Jahn was not a radical leftist and didn’t hate immigration agents, his family claimed Thursday — despite his anti-ICE sentiment written on an unspent bullet casing and a note found by the FBI.
The relative said he was with Jahn’s parents when the FBI interviewed them, and that the family is “devastated” in the wake of the shooting.
“They don’t want to say anything yet until they have time to think,” he told The Post.
A relative of Joshua Jahn says the Dallas shooter was not anti-ICE. Facebook/Andy Jahn“They’re just terrible. Everyone is devastated. Everyone is devastated.”
Asked if Jahn was anti-ICE, the relative shook his head and said, “It has nothing to do with that,” but would not elaborate on what he meant.
The relative also said Jahn was not a far-left political ideologue, despite reporting and evidence indicating otherwise, including new details from the FBI showing he meticulously plotted the Sept. 24 attack.
FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency recovered a handwritten note expressing his desire to terrorize ICE agents.
Law enforcement agents inspect the roof of an apartment building near the scene of a shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Dallas on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. AP“Hopefully this will give ICE agents real terror, to think, ‘is there a sniper with AP [armor piercing] rounds on that roof?'” Jahn allegedly wrote.
He also apparently had a fixation with the Sept. 10 assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
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In the days leading up to Jahn taking up a sniper position on a rooftop near the Dallas ICE field office, including on the day of the shooting itself, Jahn searched for the “Charlie Kirk Shot Video” multiple times, according to the FBI.
Jahn (left) pictured here with family members — who are “devastated.” Facebook/Andy JahnHis disturbing search history also included apps that tracked the presence of ICE agents, and he downloaded a document titled “Dallas County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management,” which Patel said contained a list of DHS facilities.
The sum total of evidence so far recovered during the investigation, “indicates a high degree of pre-attack planning,” feds said.
Despite this, however, the only victims in the shooting were migrants. Jahn shot three detainees in an ICE van, killing one and seriously injuring two, who both remain in critical condition.
