U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to three U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers for heroism during a sniper attack on the Dallas ICE field office on September 24, 2025. The awards were presented at the Dallas facility.
On September 24, 2025, a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on the ICE Dallas field office, targeting a transport van. Two detainees were killed, and the gunman died by self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Enforcement Removal Assistant Christopher Pyne, Deportation Officer Marco Solis, and Deportation Officer Andres Goche were recognized. Pyne and Solis administered lifesaving first aid to two critically injured detainees. Officer Goche made the initial 911 call and retrieved multiple detainees from the van under fire, moving them to safety for evaluation.
Secretary Mullin said, "Today we honored some of our ICE law enforcement officers who, amid sniper shots at the Dallas ICE facility shooting on September 24, 2025, rushed into action to save illegal aliens’ lives. Every day, the brave men and women of ICE make our communities safer by arresting the worst of the worst: terrorists, murderers, gang members, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers. Our officers are the best of the best. They risk their lives to protect our nation. The Democrats must turn down the temperature and stop comparing our officers to Nazis, the secret police, and slave patrols. This repeated demonization has led to a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against our officers." U.S. Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) added, "ICE and Border Patrol are on the front lines of not only defending American sovereignty, but keeping our communities safe and ensuring that murderers and rapists and gang bangers are not running loose within our neighborhoods." The same Dallas facility faced a bomb threat in August 2025.