Dallas ICE Facility Attack: Suspect's Obsessions and Paranoid Beliefs Revealed

Suspect's Stated Motivation

• 🎯 The clearest motivation for the attack on the Dallas ICE facility comes from the suspect's own handwritten notes, stating, "I want to cause terror."
• 📝 The FBI revealed that the suspect, Joshua Yan, referred to ICE agents as "people showing up to collect a dirty paycheck."
• 💥 Yan reportedly hoped his gunfire would instill "real terror" in ICE agents, making them question if a sniper was present.
• 🚫 Anti-ICE sentiments were also found scrolled on bullet casings left at the scene.

Paranoid Beliefs and Obsessions

• 🧠 Records indicate Yan was a loner obsessed with artificial intelligence.
• ☢️ After working on a legal cannabis farm near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Yan became convinced he had been exposed to radiation and was suffering from radiation sickness.
• 🧤 He developed a belief that he was allergic to plastic, leading him to wear cotton gloves for protection.
• 🗺️ A map depicting radioactive fallout in the United States, originally from a 1980s book showing estimated radioactive clouds from 1950s-60s nuclear testing, was displayed on his car at the shooting scene.

Pre-Attack Activities

• 👨‍👦 A month before the attack, Yan practiced shooting with his father in Oklahoma, using an old bolt-action rifle that surprised his father.
• 🔫 This same type of rifle is believed to have been used in the shooting incident that killed two detainees and injured a third at the Dallas ICE facility.