The person arrested in connection with a shooting near the Aurora Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Thursday is a GEO Group employee, Aurora Police Department officials said Friday.

The woman who suffered the gunshot wound and another woman with her were part of a protest happening near the Aurora ICE facility earlier that evening.

APD officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 3100 block of North Nome Street around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, finding a woman with a gunshot wound in her lower body and a second woman who was unharmed, according to a news release.

She was taken to the hospital with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.

Officers stopped 42-year-old GEO Group employee Brandon Booth a short distance away. The gun involved in the incident was in his car, officials said.

According to the initial investigation, the women were part of a protest at the ICE facility earlier that evening.

Protesters kept several employees, including Booth, from getting to the facility to work and the employees waited in their cars along Nome Street.

The two women allegedly initiated a verbal confrontation and took pictures of the employees’ vehicles, then walked away.

Booth fired a single shot at them with his personal pistol and drove away before he was detained.

Police arrested Booth and booked him on suspicion of attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, attempted first-degree assault, felony menacing and unlawful carrying of a concealed weapon.

Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain called the incident a “tragedy on all fronts.”

“We remain committed to ensuring an ethical, thorough, objective and comprehensive review of this case,” Chamberlain said in the release. “Violence of any kind will not be tolerated in Aurora. Constitutional rights are a pivotal part of a just society — violence is not.”

Booth’s criminal record shows charges of driving under the influence, driving under suspension and two protection orders, according to court records.

The investigation is ongoing and anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

A GEO Group spokesperson said the company is aware of the incident and placed Booth on unpaid administrative leave. GEO will fully cooperate with law enforcement, the spokesperson said.

The Aurora shooting comes on the heels of two recent high-profile shootings involving ICE agents.

On Monday, an ICE agent allegedly shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, according to reporting from AP.

On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was fatally shot, allegedly by an ICE agent, while driving his construction crew to a job site in Houston, AP reported. He did not have a criminal record.