Suspect In Murder Of Chicago College Student Was Released From Border And Police Custody In 2023, Ice Says

A fishy successful nan execution of an 18-year-old student successful Chicago had apparently been released from separator and constabulary custody aft entering nan U.S. illegally.

Jose Medina, 25, of Chicago was arrested connected Friday nighttime successful relationship pinch nan shooting of Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman and is facing charges that see first-degree murder.

According to a Department of Homeland Security release, Medina, primitively from Venezuela, illegally entered nan U.S. successful 2023.

On Thursday, Gorman was stepping pinch her friends astatine Tobey Prinz Beach astir 1:30 a.m., which is little than a mile from Loyola. A man allegedly walked up to nan group, pulled retired a gun, and began firing astatine them.

Gorman was changeable successful nan caput and died astatine nan scene. No 1 other successful nan group was injured.

She was only a fewer months distant from finishing her first twelvemonth of college, according to ABC 7. Chicago constabulary do not judge that she was nan intended target of nan attack.

"Sheridan was our daughter, our sister, and nan bosom of our family. She was afloat of life, afloat of kindness, and afloat of a emotion that she gave freely to everyone astir her," her family said successful a statement. "She made group consciousness seen. She made group consciousness valued. Whether it was her friends, her family, aliases personification she had conscionable met, Sheridan had a measurement of leaving group amended than she recovered them."

Loyola University's president offered his condolences to Gorman's family.

“This is simply a tragic loss, and our hearts spell retired to Sheridan's family, loved ones, and each who knew her." he said.

When Medina entered nan state successful 2023, he was arrested and released, according to nan DHS. He was arrested again later connected shoplifting charges but allegedly skipped retired connected his trial, which resulted successful constabulary obtaining a warrant for his arrest.

On Monday, President Donald Trump was asked astir nan murder. In summation to his arguable anti-immigration policies, he has many times claimed, without providing evidence, that Venezuela emptied its prisons and “insane asylums” and sent their inmates to invade nan U.S.

"It's devastating. These group were fto successful by [former President Joe] Biden. We're getting them out. We're getting them retired fast. That's why ICE is truthful important. They're doing specified a bully job. This, this animal ... came successful done Joe Biden, pinch his unfastened doorway argumentation and his separator czar Kamala, who ne'er saw nan border, ne'er made 1 telephone call," Trump said.

"All nan ICE people, you see, they each cognize me. Everyone knows me. They for illustration me. I speak to them each nan time. [Harris] didn't make 1 telephone telephone during 4 years [that] she was nan separator czar," Trump said. "This personification [Medina] came successful done nan unfastened doorway argumentation of Joe Biden and we person others. We're taking them retired by nan tens of thousands. We're doing a awesome job, but it's a shame they've wounded our country."

In 2024, Trump tried to premier nan American nationalist for his coming migration crackdowns and ICE raids by insisting that Venezuela had sent each of its astir convulsive and vulnerable criminals to transverse nan U.S. border.

"In Venezuela, their crime complaint went down 72 percent. You cognize why? Because they took nan criminals retired of Caracas, and they put them on your border. And they said, 'if you ever travel back, we're going to termination you,'" Trump said successful 2024.