US EditionLoyola Student's Killing Sparks Immigration Policy Clash
Jose Medina, charged with murder and other felonies, was released twice before the fatal shooting of Loyola student Sheridan Gorman, authorities said.
- On Thursday, March 19, 2026, 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was fatally shot near Tobey Prinz Beach. Authorities charged 25-year-old Venezuelan national Jose Medina-Medina with first-degree murder and weapons offenses.
- Federal records show Medina-Medina was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, and released into the country. He was arrested again in June 2023 for shoplifting in Chicago and released, with an active warrant remaining at the time of the shooting.
- Police report a masked gunman approached Gorman and her friends near the lakefront before firing, striking her in the back. Medina-Medina remains in custody but hospitalized for tuberculosis, forcing the court to postpone his initial detention hearing.
- Governor JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson face intense scrutiny over sanctuary policies, which critics argue enabled Medina-Medina's release. Pritzker acknowledged "real failures" in the national immigration system while condemning the attack.
- Gorman's family condemned the systemic "failures" that allowed the suspect to remain free, stating the case "must be prosecuted to the fullest extent." The tragedy has intensified national debates over immigration enforcement and sanctuary city policies.
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Chicago mayor asked about city’s immigration policies after illegal immigrant allegedly killed Sheridan Gorman
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked about the city's immigration policies after Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman, 18, was allegedly killed by a 25-year-old Venezuelan illegal immigrant Jose Medina.
The death of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old American student, was at the heart of the public agenda in Illinois after authorities arrested a Venezuelan migrant as the main suspect in the attack. The incident occurred in Chicago and generated reactions from state officials and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). J.B. Pritzer, governor of the state, did not take long to arrive. “He must be held accountable to the law,” he wrote in a messag…
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Cooperating with ICE’s doesn’t “take needed resources and time away from” local police departments. Rather, it alleviates cops from having to investigate the next crime and (on average) four more that criminal aliens will likely commit, and spares parents from having their “lives shattered in a way no family should ever have to endure”.
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