GEO employee arrested in shooting of protester outside Aurora ICE facility

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https://www.cpr.org/2026/07/17/ice-jail-employee-arrested-in-protester-shooting/

A woman was shot Thursday night after a protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Aurora. An employee of GEO Group, which operates the facility, was arrested in connection with the shooting.

The shooting came after a confrontation between protesters and the suspect, Brandon Booth, 42, according to the Aurora Police Department.

The woman’s injuries are believed to be non-fatal.

Aurora PD responded to the shooting at 7:30 p.m., finding a woman had been shot in her lower body. She was with another woman who was uninjured.

Police then stopped and detained Booth, 42, a GEO Group employee, not far from the facility on the 3100 block of Nome Street.

Police reported that Booth and his colleagues had been unable to get into the facility for their work shifts due to the protest. The two women reportedly took pictures of the employees’ cars and got into a verbal altercation with the employees before walking away.

Booth then took out his personal firearm and fired one shot in the direction of the women, hitting one woman, police alleged. He got back into his car and drove away, according to Aurora PD.

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