Illegal immigrant charged in college student’s murder hauled into court in latest arrest

The amerciable migrant accused of murdering a assemblage pupil successful Chicago has a transgression grounds and entered the U.S. nether the Biden administration, according to officials.

25-year-old Jose Medina, a Venezuelan national, was arrested connected Friday aft helium allegedly killed Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago pupil successful a shooting. A constabulary root earlier told Fox News that the Thursday shooting was an evident ambush, adding that the fishy was reportedly wearing immoderate benignant of look disguise oregon look covering. He was arrested successful Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, adjacent to wherever the shooting took place.

Medina is expected successful tribunal connected Monday afternoon.

When Gorman, who was a freshman from Westchester County, New York, tried to fly portion she was with a radical of friends, the gunman changeable her, according to officials. She was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

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Loyola University pupil Sheridan Gorman was killed successful Chicago connected March 19, 2026. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram))

Medina, an amerciable migrant from Venezuela, was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol connected May 9, 2023, and was released into the U.S. nether the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Following an apprehension for shoplifting successful Chicago, Medina was released connected June 19, 2023, DHS said.

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He was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, 3 felony counts of aggravated battle with discharge of firearm and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, according to the Chicago Police Department.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged an apprehension detainer against Medina pursuing the alleged murder.

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

"We are calling connected Governor Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to perpetrate to not releasing this transgression amerciable alien from jailhouse backmost into American neighborhoods," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said.

In a caller connection to Fox News, Gorman's household said their daughter's decease was a effect of systemic nonaccomplishment wrong the migration system.

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Sheridan Gorman was killed aft being changeable successful the caput portion taking a locomotion with friends astatine Tobey Prinz Beach, located little than a mile from the Illinois’ campus, astir 1 a.m. connected Thursday, according to reports. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

"We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this idiosyncratic to stay successful a presumption to perpetrate this crime. When systems fail—whether done merchandise decisions, deficiency of coordination, oregon unwillingness to act—the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And successful our case, they are permanent," the household said. "This lawsuit indispensable beryllium prosecuted to the fullest grade of some authorities and national law. There tin beryllium nary gaps, nary shortcuts, and nary 2nd chances that enactment others astatine risk. Accountability indispensable beryllium complete."

In October, Democrat Illinois JB Pritzker posted a satirical video from the streets of Chicago portion helium was wearing a bullet-proof vest, trying to marque a constituent astir however harmless the metropolis is.

Alderwoman Maria Hadden told Fox 32 Chicago that Gorman's decease seemed to beryllium a lawsuit of "wrong spot astatine the incorrect time."

"The kids were retired doing mean things radical bash successful the neighborhood," she said. "They whitethorn person been successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time, moving into a idiosyncratic who had a gun."