Law enforcement responds to a shooting at an ICE field office in Dallas on Wednesday. Jeffrey McWhorter/Reuters
On any given day, people detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement are processed at the agency’s field office in Dallas – a rectangular, brick building tucked between a busy highway, several law offices and a luxury apartment complex.
On Wednesday morning, the unassuming building became the center of national attention when a “sniper” fired “indiscriminately” at the ICE facility from another building, leaving one detainee dead and two others seriously injured, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Gunshots slicing through the air from above sent visitors running for cover or peering out of their cars to investigate – some of them worried for family mem