Illegal immigrant accused of killing Chicago college student to face court after tuberculosis delay

The amerciable migrant accused of sidesplitting a Loyola University Chicago pupil is acceptable to marque his archetypal tribunal quality much than a week aft his arrest, which was delayed arsenic helium undergoes attraction for tuberculosis.

Jose Medina-Medina, 25, allegedly killed Sheridan Gorman portion she was with friends connected a pier connected March 19 conscionable aft 1 a.m., according to officials. Medina-Medina, the fishy successful Gorman's murder, entered the state illegally connected May 9, 2023, and was apprehended past released into the U.S. nether the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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Sheridan Gorman (L) was allegedly murdered by Jose Medina (R) (Sheridan Gorman/Instagram and Cook County Sheriff's Office)

A detention proceeding for Medina-Medina was scheduled for Monday, but was postponed arsenic tribunal officials said helium was being treated for tuberculosis. The proceeding was moved to Friday astatine 11:30 a.m. section time, wherever prosecutors are expected to springiness much details connected Medina-Medina and Gorman's murder. He's facing charges of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, aggravated discharge of a firearm, and amerciable possession of a weapon.

A Cook County Sheriff's Office spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday that Medina-Medina was successful the aesculapian part of its jail. He was astatine a section infirmary earlier successful the week earlier being transferred to the jail.

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Sheridan Gorman smiles alongside the Chicago skyline successful Illinois.  (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

Criminal defence lawyer Donna Rotunno told Fox News Digital the determination to postpone Medina-Medina's proceeding connected Monday was apt made by the Cook County Sheriff's Department and aesculapian personnel. He volition apt look virtually arsenic officials are acrophobic astir the illness Medina-Medina has, she added.

A autochthonal of Yorktown Heights, New York, Gorman attended Yorktown High School and was described successful an obituary arsenic idiosyncratic who "had a mode of making radical consciousness seen, valued, and believed in."

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Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan national, was besides arrested for shoplifting and released earlier the alleged murder, DHS confirmed.  (DHS)

"People often accidental idiosyncratic 'lit up a room' oregon had ‘inner and outer beauty,’ but successful Sheridan’s case, those phrases autumn mode excessively short. She radiated thing adjacent greater—a uncommon and unmistakable warmth, a tone that was vibrant, compassionate, and afloat of life. She was funny, kind, and profoundly loving, with a bosom that made abstraction for everyone," her obituary states. "She loved fiercely—her family, her friends, her community, and her faith. She brought radical together, lifted them up, and made the mean moments consciousness bonzer simply by being successful them."

In a connection up of Friday's hearing, Gorman's household said the shooting doesn't alteration the mode they presumption Loyola University Chicago, wherever Sheridan was a freshman.

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"We person been asked whether this calamity changes however we presumption Loyola University Chicago. The reply is perfectly not. Sheradin and our household emotion Loyola," the household wrote. "We’ve besides been asked whether students should consciousness harmless there. The reply is yes. Sheridan chose Loyola due to the fact that she felt astatine location there. She was happy, she was thriving, and she felt harmless successful that community. That was our acquisition arsenic her parents arsenic well."

"What happened to Sheridan was not a reflection of the Loyola community. It was the effect of a nonaccomplishment extracurricular of it," the household added.

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Sheridan Gorman, a New York native, was reportedly lone a fewer months distant from completing her freshman twelvemonth astatine Loyola University Chicago successful Illinois. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

A constabulary root told Fox News earlier that the shooting was an evident ambush, adding that the fishy was reportedly wearing immoderate benignant of look disguise oregon covering.

An apprehension study obtained by Fox News Digital states that, aft the shooting, Medina-Medina was captured connected information video successful his flat gathering lobby waiting for an elevator and wasn't masked. A gathering technologist told constabulary helium knew the fishy who had a "very chiseled limp and gait."

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Pictures of the suspect's look were sent to a constabulary database, and accusation from U.S. Customs and Border Protection identified the fishy arsenic Medina-Medina. 

Court documents obtained by Fox News Digital amusement that Medina-Medina told officials helium was surviving astatine Leone Beach Park fieldhouse successful Rogers Park successful 2023, which was being utilized arsenic a city-sponsored structure for migrants. Medina-Medina was arrested successful 2023 and charged with shoplifting aft helium allegedly stole conscionable implicit $130 successful merchandise from a Macy's successful downtown Chicago. He failed to look for tribunal hearings related to that case, and an apprehension warrant remained progressive until the alleged murder.

Fox News' Philip Bodinet and Patrick McGovern contributed to this report.