The sniper who carried out the shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas left behind notes indicating that he acted entirely alone in a premeditated attack designed to kill and “terrorise” ICE agents, whom he considered to be engaged in what he described as “ human trafficking “, officials said on Thursday.

Although one person held in ICE custody was killed and two other detainees were critically wounded in Wednesday’s bloodshed, it seemed clear from the gunman’s writings that “he did not intend to kill detainees or harm them,” Nancy Larson, acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said at a news conference.

No government personnel were injured in the incident, though officials said ICE agents and other federal officers rushed into harm

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