At least three injured and the attacker dead in a shooting at an immigration office in Dallas

A shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Dallas, Texas, left at least three people injured and the alleged attacker dead, US authorities reported on Wednesday.

"There was a shooting this morning at the ICE office in Dallas. We can confirm multiple injuries and casualties. The shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told X.

Dallas police confirmed that they received a call at 6:40 a.m. local time requesting backup, and indicated that, according to the preliminary investigation, the suspect fired shots from a "government building" adjacent to the ICE facility.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told CNN that "preliminary information indicates this is a possible sniper" with "three people injured at this time" and transported to the hospital, and their identities and medical conditions are still unknown.

No ICE agents were injured, but it is unclear whether the victims include detained immigrants or local law enforcement officers, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News. She specified that the shooting occurred at a local ICE office, not a detention center, where ICE agents process the cases of recently detained individuals.

This is the third similar incident this year in Texas. In July, authorities charged ten people with participating in a shooting outside an immigration detention center in Alvarado, which left a police officer wounded. That same month, federal agents killed a man who opened fire at a Border Patrol building in MacAllen.

The Trump administration’s Homeland Security secretary admitted that the motive for the shooting was unknown, but added that ICE law enforcement “is facing unprecedented violence against them.” “This must stop,” she wrote to X. Vice President JD Vice President Joe Biden also denounced an “obsessive attack on law enforcement, particularly ICE.”