An illegal Venezuelan immigrant who was released in the United States by the Joe Biden government has been identified as the prime suspect in the murder of a student at Loyola University in Chicago, according to information provided by the Department of Homeland Security (in English, DHS) this Sunday.
José Medina-Medina, 25, was arrested a few hours ago and is accused of shooting at point-blank range at an 18-year-old student who was on her way with friends to see the Northern Lights on Thursday morning. Police were able to identify Medina after he was caught without a mask on surveillance video taken inside an apartment building after the shooting
.
The shooter was released in the country by order of the Biden government after crossing the border illegally in May 2023, DHS said. The Venezuelan citizen already had a criminal record for having robbed a commercial store in June 2023, and a valid arrest warrant had been issued
against him. Flowers are seen on the pier at Tobey Prinz Beach in Chicago in memory of the murdered student.
Trump pushes to end sanctuary cities For
this abhorrent crime, theWhite Houseis pressuring Illinois authorities to repeal the sanctuary laws that prevail in the state. These laws limit cooperation between the local police force and federal immigration authorities, something that ends up protecting undocumented immigrants who commit serious crimes and may be subject
to deportation.
“Sheridan Gorman had his whole life ahead of him before this cold-blooded killer decided to end his life. She was failed by open border policies and politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he committed this heinous murder,” Acting Undersecretary of Homeland Security Lauren Bis said in a
statement.
“We're asking Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago politicians to commit to not releasing this undocumented criminal from jail to American neighborhoods,” Bis added.
The student's family issued a statement. “What happened to Sheridan can't be reduced to the idea that someone was in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is not an abstraction. This is the loss of a daughter. The loss of a sister. The loss of a future full of milestones that now will never come. Our family has changed forever,” reads part of the letter.
The murdered student Sheridan Gorman and the main defendant for her murder.
