The records, obtained by The Associated Press through an open records request, reveal no clues about what may have motivated the attack.
The new records show that on the day of the shooting, Jahn’s parents told the FBI he would “occasionally discuss current events” with his mother but rarely engaged in conversations.
Jahn appeared directionless and slept in his car for months, the farm’s owner, Ryan Sanderson, previously told The AP.
Jahn told his father he had “recently” purchased the gun online, police records show.
According to the records, his mother told the FBI she had “no idea” her son owned a gun.
The parents of the 29-year-old shooter who opened fire on an immigration facility in Dallas in September told police their son was “completely normal” before he moved to Washington state and came home a few years ago because they thought he had “radiation sickness” and was “allergic to plastic,” according to recently made public documents.
A month prior to the fatal rooftop attack on a U.S. building, Joshua Jahn had started wearing cotton gloves to prevent contact with plastic and had been practicing target shooting with a recently acquired rifle in Oklahoma. A. The Fairview Police Department officer who wrote the report claimed that the building was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
Jahn committed suicide in September after killing two detainees and injuring another. 24 shooting.
Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, 37, of El Salvador, and Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, 32, of Mexico, were the two victims who died. After being removed from life support, Garcia-Hernandez passed away at Parkland Hospital after being shot at least eight times during the assault, according to the League of United Latin American Citizens.
The Department of Homeland Security official said that Jose Andres Bordones-Molina, the injured victim, was eventually discharged from the hospital.
The documents, which were acquired by The Associated Press via an open records request, don’t provide any insight into the possible motivation behind the assault. Previously, federal authorities claimed that Jahn left handwritten notes and wrote “ANTI-ICE” on a bullet, indicating his intention to ambush and terrorize ICE agents.
According to the new documents, Jahn’s parents told the FBI that he would “occasionally discuss current events” with his mother on the day of the shooting, but they hardly ever had conversations. He was described by his parents as a “loner” who was “obsessed” with artificial intelligence technology. The parents, Andrew and Sharon Jahn, did not immediately answer The AP’s phone calls and texts on Monday.
Jahn was described in the documents as a young man without a job and without friends who had withdrawn into playing video games in his bedroom at his parents’ house in a Dallas suburb. According to Jahn’s parents, he had no physical or mental health conditions identified or treated.
An inquiry was not immediately answered by the FBI or the police. The FBI stated that it was concentrating on national security, federal law violations, and critical public safety tasks due to the government shutdown.
Upon his return from Washington due to his inability to keep a job, Jahn’s parents informed the FBI that he thought he was “allergic to plastic” and tried to keep his skin away from the substance. The Washington state county where he worked was one of the locations for the covert Manhattan Project, which was responsible for creating atomic bombs. Their son, they added, developed a strong belief that he had been “exposed to radiation from a nearby facility and was suffering from radiation sickness” while he was in Washington. “,”.
A map of radioactive fallout in the United States is attached to a car in photos taken at the shooting site. S. .
According to the records, his family life was anything but peaceful. According to police records, Jahn’s mother called the police when his older brother did not appear for an appointment with an Army recruiter to sign enlistment papers in 2014, after his father had pushed him to get a job or enlist in the military after high school.
After Jahn’s sister slept in instead of attending high school, moved out of the house for weeks as a teenager, and once sprayed an expletive on the family’s driveway, Jahn’s mother called the police.
Their youngest son, Joshua, however, was financially supported by the Jahns while he played video games in his bedroom on the second floor.
Jahn and his father went to practice shooting at their Durant, Oklahoma, property, where they are constructing a new house, approximately a month prior to the ICE facility attack. Jahn’s father was shocked to see his son take an “old rifle” out of his car, even though he owned multiple firearms. According to police records, Jahn informed his father that he had “recently” bought the gun online.
His mother told the FBI that she had “no idea” her son had a gun, according to the records.
The FBI previously stated that the bolt-action rifle used in the shooting was lawfully obtained by Jahn. However, it is unclear from police records whether Jahn used that firearm during the target shooting.
Under the alias “Frank Hoenniker,” Jahn played online games, according to analysts with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a program run by the Center for Internet Security that focuses on hate and extremism. In author Kurt Vonnegut’s 1963 satirical novel “Cat’s Cradle,” which explores politics, religion, and nuclear proliferation, the username appears to be a misspelled reference to a ruthless and cunning character.
Jahn has over 11,000 hours of experience playing survival and first-person shooter games, according to the game distribution website Steam.
