Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, a 37-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was fatally shot on the morning of September 24, 2025, during a sniper-style attack on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office along North Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. He was in ICE custody when gunfire erupted, striking a transport van holding restrained detainees outside the facility. He died at the scene or shortly after, according to officials and local reporting, which identified him by name and confirmed his age.
Authorities said the shooter was 29-year-old Joshua Jahn, who opened fire from a rooftop overlooking the complex before taking his own life. Investigators described the assault as a targeted attack on ICE; notes recovered by law enforcement suggested anti-government and anti-ICE sentiments and planning. With the gunman dead, no arrests were made, and the FBI assumed the lead in the investigation as a case of targeted violence.
Two other detainees were wounded in the barrage. Miguel Ángel García-Hernández was initially hospitalized in grave condition and later died of his injuries on September 30, while a third victim, Jose Andrés Bordones-Molina, survived and was eventually released from the hospital. The attack spurred heightened security at the Dallas field office and drew swift public scrutiny over the safety of detainee transports.
In the days that followed, a fuller portrait of Guzman-Fuentes emerged. A native of El Salvador, he had moved for work in the U.S., most recently in Texas’s tree-service industry, and had been transferred to ICE custody after a recent arrest in Dallas. Relatives told reporters he had discussed returning to El Salvador; his wife said he called from a local jail the night before the attack to say he expected to be deported. Community members in Dallas later gathered for a candlelight vigil in his memory, placing flowers and hand-painted umbrellas downtown, while news outlets in Texas and national wire services chronicled his final hours and the shock that followed.
Federal and local officials publicly identified Guzman-Fuentes and confirmed key details of the assault, noting that ICE personnel were uninjured and that agents ran toward the gunfire to aid the wounded. As investigators closed the immediate threat with the shooter’s death, they continued to reconstruct Jahn’s movements and possible motivations, even as families and advocates mourned a life cut short outside a government building where the day had begun as a routine detainee transfer.
