Gorman family calls out Johnson and Pritzker following college student's killing in Chicago

The family of Sheridan Gorman is pushing back on comments from Chicago and Illinois leaders, saying her killing was not a "senseless tragedy" and demanding accountability for what they call systemic failures.

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's Rogers Park area. Officials say that Jose Medina-Medina, 25, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, allegedly fired one shot at the Loyola University Chicago student, killing her. Medina-Medina was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, and was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The Gorman family on Wednesday released a statement criticizing both Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, saying that her death "demands accountability."

"What happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to a ‘senseless tragedy,’ nor can it be explained in general term...