Anti-ICE shooter was lazy stoner who relocated to Washington to pick pot, ex boss says
Joshua Jahn, 29, worked a short-lived job on a legal cannabis farm in Benton City, WA in 2017. via REUTERS
The man who opened fire on a Dallas immigration facility Wednesday—killing one migrant and wounding two others before taking his own life—was remembered by a former employer as a drifting, marijuana-obsessed young man with little direction.
Joshua Jahn, 29, worked briefly on a legal cannabis farm in Benton City, Washington, in 2017. His ex-boss, Ryan Sanderson, said Jahn seemed more interested in weed culture than work. “He was all about the weed. He wanted to be part of the scene. He lived in his car while he helped,” Sanderson told The Post.
Jahn was part of a 15-person harvest crew, trimming leaves and listening to music. Sanderson described him as “going through the motions” and “probably too high” to be productive. “He wasn’t an exceptional worker by any stretch,” he recalled. After the harvest ended, Sanderson kept him on for a few extra months out of sympathy but eventually let him go.
Authorities say Jahn scrawled “Anti-ICE” on an ammunition clip before his attack on the facility. Investigators also recovered a handwritten note describing hopes of instilling “real terror” in immigration officers. His car, a beat-up Toyota Corolla, had a nuclear fallout map taped to the side.
Jahn had been arrested in 2015 for marijuana possession and later worked at a solar plant in Texas. Relatives say he had firearms experience but insist he was not a radical leftist or filled with hatred toward immigration agents. Voter records show he was a registered independent who cast ballots in both Democratic and general elections, most recently in 2024.
His mother, Sharon, had posted anti-gun messages on Facebook, criticizing Texas lawmakers who supported the Second Amendment. But his family said they were stunned by news of the shooting.
Sanderson, too, said he was shocked. “I thought, ‘God, what happened to him?’ He didn’t seem like somebody who would do something like that. He was just your typical 21-year-old who liked to smoke weed,” he said.
Federal authorities are investigating the attack as a targeted strike on the ICE processing center.
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