"A Steam screenshot obtained by Klippenstein shows that Jahn was playing first-person shooter games Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 in the wee morning hours of Wednesday before he attacked the ICE office in Dallas at around 6:30 am. Jahn found an elevated position on a neighboring building and started shooting indiscriminately, killing two immigrant detainees and leaving one other person injured. None of the victims were ICE agents. Jahn later killed himself at the scene."
"This newly revealed information linking Jahn to first-person-shooter video games and 4 chan will surely add more fuel to the ongoing debate on what is driving people, mostly young men, to engage in violent acts against the public or political targets such as right wing influencer Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated earlier this month at the age of 31, and President Donald Trump, who had his own brush with death last year during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania."
Joshua Jahn of Texas logged more than 17,000 hours on Steam and frequented 4chan before attacking a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Dallas early Wednesday. A screenshot shows Jahn playing Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead 2 in the hours before the assault. Jahn took an elevated position on a neighboring building, shot indiscriminately, killed two immigrant detainees, wounded another person, and later killed himself. None of the victims were ICE agents. The incident, alongside other recent killings by avid gamers, has intensified debate about gaming’s role despite many studies failing to establish a causal link between games and violent behavior.
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