GEO Group worker charged with assault in shooting of ICE protester in Colorado

DENVER— A man employed by a company running a U.S.

DENVER— A man employed by a company running a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Denver was charged on Wednesday with assault stemming from the shooting and wounding of an ICE protester there last week, local prosecutors said.

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Brandon Booth, 42, who works for GEO Group GEO.N, was accused of opening fire with his personally-owned handgun in the direction of two women who were demonstrating outside a GEO-operated ICE processing center in Aurora, Colorado, last Thursday.

The two protesters had “initiated a verbal confrontation” with GEO employees waiting to enter the grounds of the facility and were taking pictures of the workers’ vehicles, when Booth got out of his vehicle and fired a single shot, according to Aurora police.