AURORA, Colo. (AP) \u2014 An off-duty employee at a federal immigration detention center in Colorado has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun following a confrontation with two protesters outside the building, hitting a woman in the foot.<\/p>\n
Aurora police said the shooting happened Thursday night as employees were waiting along a street for the protest to clear so they could start their work shifts. Investigators said two women started a verbal confrontation and took pictures of the employees’ vehicles before walking away.<\/p>\n
The man is accused of retrieving a personally owned pistol and firing one shot in the direction of the women, hitting one in the lower body. The woman’s injuries were not considered life-threatening, police said.<\/p>\n
Emma Landis, 21, said she got shot on her right ankle. \u201cIt\u2019s not a joke. This isn\u2019t a game. This isn\u2019t something you see on social media and hope not to experience,” Landis said.<\/p>\n
Demonstrators regularly have been gathering outside the center in Colorado, like they have elsewhere around the U.S., to protest President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration<\/a> crackdown. Earlier this month, protesters clashed with law enforcement in New Jersey<\/a>, resulting in dozens of arrests there.<\/p>\n In Colorado, the detention center employee was arrested and booked on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and other charges. He works for the private-prison operator Geo Group, which is contracted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to run the 1,500-bed detention center.<\/p>\n Geo Group confirmed Friday that the employee was placed on unpaid administrative leave. The company said it will cooperate with law enforcement.<\/p>\n The Associated Press emailed ICE on Friday requesting comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AURORA, Colo. (AP) \u2014 An off-duty employee at a federal immigration detention center in Colorado has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun following a confrontation with two protesters outside the building, hitting a woman in the foot. Aurora police said the shooting happened Thursday night as employees were waiting along a street for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5734],"tags":[],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-139628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-associated-press"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139629,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139628\/revisions\/139629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139628"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=139628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}