Friends of Joshua Jahn, the gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) bus outside the Dallas field office, mocked his deadly actions in a private online gaming chat, according to newly uncovered messages, as reported [1] by The New York Post.
Jahn, 29, killed one person and critically wounded two others on Wednesday before taking his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said. The attack, now under investigation by the FBI, has drawn additional attention after his longtime gaming group reacted with callous comments.
Joshua Jahn, 29, named as shooter in Dallas ICE facility shooting. Reports claim he’s a gamer active on Discord and recently lost his job at Walmart. pic.twitter.com/d4tLEbXQ04 [2]
— GreatLakesLady (@GreatlakesladyM) September 24, 2025 [3]
The group, which has operated on the Steam platform since 2012, goes by the name “Fug bithces Get Money.”
Its tagline reads: “we can uze da pew pew or not we are coollllll :-D.”
Following the shooting, one member wrote, “[He] shoulda hit the range a lil more,” while another added, “He missed,” in response to his gunfire.
Anti-ICE gunman Joshua Jahn’s gamer pals made ghoulish jokes after deadly shooting: ‘Shoulda hit the range a lil more’ https://t.co/HwofeGDdT9 [4] pic.twitter.com/71Vkd75DVQ [5]
— New York Post (@nypost) September 25, 2025 [6]
Records from Jahn’s profile show he was a heavy user of first-person shooter video games, with more than 17,405 logged hours, the equivalent of roughly two years of continuous play.
Dallas ICE shooter, 29, spent SEVENTEEN THOUSAND horus playing video games before opening fire https://t.co/E2pAFhfgLY [7]
— SonofLiberty357 (@SonofLiberty357) September 25, 2025 [8]
Hours before the shooting, he logged onto Steam to play Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. His account, created in September 2011, also displayed the “mind blown” award he had received from other players.
Jahn used several aliases on the platform, including “#impeachment,” “Hankiebob,” and “Frank Hoenikker,” the last being a reference to a character from Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle.
Authorities also recovered materials at the scene linking Jahn to nuclear-related imagery. A printed fallout map was taped to his blue Toyota Corolla with text above it reading, “Radioactive fallout from nuclear detonations have passed over these areas more than 2x since 1951.”
The FBI said Jahn fired multiple rounds into the ICE bus before turning the weapon on himself. The incident left the agency and local law enforcement investigating both the attack and his online history.
Officials have not released further information about Jahn’s motives, though the discovery of his online interactions and the nuclear fallout map have added to the growing picture of his background.