A person has been taken into custody after a woman was wounded in a shooting near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colorado, police said.
A police spokesperson told Fox News that the shooting occurred Thursday night and that the woman’s injuries were not considered life-threatening. Authorities said a man was detained after the incident, which took place outside the ICE facility, not inside the building.
Andrea Loya, executive director of Casa de Paz, a local nonprofit that assists people released from the ICE detention center as they reconnect with relatives and supporters, told The Denver Post the gunfire erupted after a weekly protest outside the facility had ended.
The immigrant detention facility operated by the privately owned GEO Group for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Aurora, Colo. (Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
INC News has contacted the Department of Homeland Security seeking additional comment on the shooting near the Aurora ICE detention facility.
Loya told the newspaper that one of her staff members, who was on a call with advocates, reported hearing screams after learning about the shooting at around 7:40 p.m. local time.
An Aurora police spokesperson also told The Denver Post that the individual detained for questioning is considered “potentially a suspect.”
A protest outside the ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colo., in July 2019. The recent shooting happened following a weekly protest there on Thursday night, a report said. (Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
The shooting happened near the 3100 block of Nome Street, according to the newspaper.
It comes as the FBI is also investigating gunfire that riddled the windows of an Arizona ICE center earlier this week.
Video from FOX 10 Phoenix showed the damage after one or more unidentified people fired multiple rounds at the building.
The FBI’s Phoenix Field Office said it is investigating that shooting, which happened Tuesday afternoon at the Enforcement and Removal Operations building on North Central Avenue in Phoenix.
The exterior of the ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colo. (Google Maps)
No injuries were reported, and no arrests have been announced as of Friday morning.
