Man charged with murder of Loyola student Sheridan Gorman
A Venezuelan migrant has been charged with the murder of Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, police introduced Sunday, prompting outrage from Trump administration officers who branded her killing because the end result of sanctuary insurance policies in Illinois.
Jose Medina, 25, faces costs of first-degree murder, tried murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm for the March 19 assault close to a pier at Tobey Prinz Beach, in line with Chicago police.
Federal immigration authorities stated US Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued an arrest detainer named Medina hours earlier than police introduced the fees.
The Department of Homeland Security stated Medina was taken into custody by the US Border Patrol in May 2023, launched after which taken into custody once more two months later for shoplifting. He was charged with misdemeanor retail theft in that case, accused of stealing $132.50 of merchandise from the State Street Macy’s, county court docket data present. An excellent warrant from that case is energetic.
Records present Medina was born in Venezuela and at one level lived in a brief migrant shelter on the Leone Beach Park Field House, which closed in 2024. He was amongst hundreds of migrants who arrived in Chicago, many of them sought to the city by GOP Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in protest of former President Joe Biden’s border insurance policies.
Acting Assistant DHS Secretary Lauren Bis claimed in a press release that Gorman was “failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians” and urged Gov. JB Pritzker to not launch Medina, who was scheduled to make his first court docket look Monday.
Pritzker’s workplace didn’t have any quick remark.
Legislation signed by Republican former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner limits cooperation between native police and federal immigration authorities. The Illinois TRUST Act typically bars police from sharing info with immigration brokers or handing over folks in custody except a federal legal warrant is issued, a coverage lengthy denigrated by President Donald Trump and different conservative critics.
Gorman, 18, and her pals took an early morning stroll Thursday simply north of the Rogers Park campus, hoping to seize some photographs with a view of the skyline and doubtlessly the Northern Lights, her household stated in a press release.
When they arrived, a masked gunman “emerged from the shadows” and fired a single shot as they fled, in line with a Chicago police report. One of Gorman’s pals who witnessed the shooting informed the Chicago Sun-Times that “it didn’t seem like it was intentionally targeted toward any of us.”
The pals ran in numerous instructions when the shot was fired, however returned after they noticed Gorman on the bottom. She had been shot in her torso and was pronounced dead at the sceneofficers stated.
In a press release, Gorman’s household stated they had been “gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime.
“When systems fail — whether through release decisions, lack of coordination, or unwillingness to act — the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And in our case, they are permanent,” Gorman’s family said. “This case must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of both state and federal law. There can be no gaps, no shortcuts, and no second chances that put others at risk. Accountability must be complete.”
The family insisted “we will not allow this to be dismissed as ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ This was not random misfortune. “This was a violent and preventable act.”
