{"id":2557,"date":"2026-03-26T06:45:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T06:45:01","slug":"sheridan-gorman-family-calls-out-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-and-illinois-governor-jb-pritzker-over-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=2557","title":{"rendered":"Sheridan Gorman family calls out Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor\u00a0JB Pritzker over killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The family of Sheridan Gorman is pushing back on comments from Chicago and Illinois leaders, saying her killing was not a \u201csenseless tragedy\u201d and demanding accountability for what they call systemic failures.<\/p>\n<p>18-year-old Gorman was killed on March 19 at around 1:06 a.m. while she was with friends at a pier on the city\u2019s Rogers Park area. Officials say that Jose Medina-Medina, 25, an\u00a0illegal immigrant from Venezuela, allegedly fired one shot at the Loyola University Chicago student, killing her.<\/p>\n<p>Medina-Medina was apprehended by the US Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, and was\u00a0released into the US\u00a0under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>The Gorman family on Wednesday released a statement criticizing both Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor\u00a0JB Pritzker, saying that her death \u201cdemands accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to a \u2018senseless tragedy,\u2019 nor can it be explained in general terms about public safety. Sheridan was our daughter. She was 18 years old. She was doing something entirely normal \u2014 walking near her campus with friends. She should be here,\u201d the Gorman family said regarding recent comments by Johnson.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Loyola freshman Sheridan Gorman, 18, was allegedly shot dead by illegal immigrant Jose Medina-Medina, 25.  <span class=\"credit\">Instagram \/ Sheridan Gorman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCalling this \u2018senseless\u2019 is not enough. There must be a clear and honest accounting of what went wrong,\u201d the family added. \u201cWe will not allow Sheridan\u2019s life to be reduced to a talking point or a generalization. We expect leadership that is willing to confront hard truths and ensure that what happened to her does not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gorman\u2019s family also responded to\u00a0Gov. Pritzker\u2019s recent comments\u00a0on the freshman college student\u2019s death, writing that \u201ccalling this a tragedy is not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSheridan\u2019s death cannot be reduced to a general \u201ctragedy,\u201d nor can it be explained away by broad references to failures somewhere else. Sheridan was a daughter, a sister, and a young woman whose life was taken in a way that should never have been possible,\u201d the family said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In May 2023, Medina-Medina was apprehended by Border Patrol and released during the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"credit\">DHS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are not interested in political arguments or in watching responsibility shift from one place to another. If there were failures \u2014 as the Governor himself has acknowledged \u2014 then every one of them must be identified, examined, and addressed directly. The location of those failures matters less than the willingness to confront them honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur daughter is not a policy debate. She is a life that was taken, and that demands accountability,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker on Tuesday shifted blame to the Trump administration during an event, according to the\u00a0Chicago Tribune.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been called out by Gorman\u2019s heartbroken family. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a terrible tragedy, and I know that the Gorman family has suffered mightily\u2026 There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. That\u2019s their national failures, a\u00a0failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst,\u201d Pritzker said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson on Tuesday also\u00a0addressed Gorman\u2019s death, saying that her life was taken due to \u201csenseless violence,\u201d but called out President Trump as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no words that one could express that could properly console a family that lost their baby. And my condolences to the\u00a0Gorman family,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cYou know what the bigger threat to our public safety, it\u2019s illegal weapons that are being trafficked from bordering states that voted for\u00a0Donald Trump. This president refuses to be held accountable. And he points the finger at everything and everyone else versus doing some real self-reflection on what his responsibility is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson <span class=\"credit\">Ron Sachs \u2013 CNP for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe know that this president has not taken this situation in this challenge in our country seriously, because my question would be, isn\u2019t it time for the president of the United States of America in Congress to actually act and pass comprehensive immigration reform?\u201d Johnson continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no words that one could express that could properly console a family that lost their baby. And my condolences to the\u00a0Gorman family,\u201d Johnson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House\u00a0Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said President Donald Trump\u2019s immigration policies have kept Americans safe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) annual fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 25, 2026.  <span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIn record time, President Trump has totally secured the border, ended Biden\u2019s border crisis, and deported countless dangerous criminal illegal aliens. Those are real solutions that keep the American people safe. Meanwhile, slobs like Pritzker have constantly defended dangerous criminal illegal aliens and attempted to obstruct the important work of the Trump Administration. Pritzker\u2019s policies make the American people less safe,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>Homes in\u00a0Yorktown Heights, New York, Gorman\u2019s hometown,\u00a0were lit up in\u00a0green on Tuesday night to honor the slain Chicago college student. according to\u00a0CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0arrest report obtained by\u00a0obtained by Fox News Digital shows that Medina-Medina was seen on security video in his apartment building\u2019s lobby waiting for an elevator while unmasked after the alleged shooting. A building engineer told police that he knew the suspect, who had a \u201cvery distinct limp and gait.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said Medina-Medina was wearing a black mask and black clothing as he walked away from the shooting, noting that he had a \u201cdistinct limp and slow gait.\u201d He was seen walking from the location of the shooting to Pratt Boulevard at 1:12 a.m. Just a few minutes later, the individual was seen walking northbound through the east alley of Sheridan Road before he entered the back of his apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>Images of the suspect were sent to a police database, and\u00a0US Customs and Border Protection\u00a0identified the suspect as Medina-Medina. He was arrested at his apartment in Rogers Park, according to the arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>Medina-Medina told officials in 2023 that he was living at Leone Beach Park fieldhouse in Rogers Park in 2023, which was being used as a city-sponsored shelter for migrants. 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