What to know about the ICE facility in Texas where a detainee was shot, killed
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A shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas on Wednesday morning killed at least one detainee and wounded two others. The shooter is dead.
Dallas police officers responded to the ICE field office, located along Interstate 35E northwest of downtown, shortly before 7 a.m.
Details are still developing. Police initially described it as an active shooter situation involving a possible sniper. Federal authorities earlier in the day said two were killed.
Here’s what we know so far about the Dallas ICE facility:
Where is the Dallas ICE facility?
The Dallas facility is located at 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, just west of Dallas Love Field airport.
Several businesses are located in the vicinity of the facility, including Schlotzsky’s, Burger King, Auto Fit and a FedEx ship center.
What happens at the Dallas ICE field office?
The Dallas ICE facility is a field office for agents who cover North Texas and Oklahoma.
According to the The New York Times, the facility is used to process detainees after they have been arrested and before they are transported to a long-term detention facility. Since President Donald Trump took office in January, over 8,400 people have passed through the facility.
Weekly morning prayer vigils are a common occurrence at the facility, where people raise signs and give encouragement to immigrants on their way to appointments, according to the New York Times.
Fernando Dubove, a Dallas-based immigration attorney, told NBC 5 that people who are picked up by ICE and who have asylum deportation orders to Mexico leave from the facility.
Detainees being sent to Mexico are placed on a bus that leaves from the facility to Laredo every morning. This is something Dubove suspects the gunman knew and said he would have had a clear shot for when the transfer occurs from facility to bus, according to NBC 5.
Generally, detainees are shackled like a chain gang while they move from the facility to the bus, Dubove said. For transfer from the Dallas facility to other detention facilities, Dubove said that typically occurs at night.
How long has the Dallas ICE facility been established?
The building has been around since at least the early 1990s.
According to the Star-Telegram archives, the building used to serve as the Dallas district office for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service department.
It later served as the Dallas office for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services department.
It’s unclear when the building became an ICE facility.
This story was originally published September 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM with the headline "What to know about the ICE facility in Texas where a detainee was shot, killed."
