A worker at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center was booked on suspicion of attempted murder after shooting a protester, Colorado police say.
Aurora police said protesters were blocking ICE workers’ access to the ICE facility on Thursday evening when two female protesters got into a verbal altercation with the workers and took photos of their vehicles.
She was shot in the lower part of her body, but her injuries are believed to be non-life-threatening.
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Brandon Booth, 42, allegedly “retrieved his personally owned pistol” and fired it at the two protesters as they walked away, striking one. He got back into his car and drove away.
Police said they were notified about the shooting around 7:30 a.m.
Booth was detained about two blocks away from the location of
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