Sheridan Gorman | José Medina: A Venezuelan immigrant is arrested and accused of the murder of a Loyola University student in Chicago, United States

The US authorities reported this Monday the arrest of a Venezuelan immigrant, identified as José Medina, for the alleged murder of a student at Loyola University in Chicago, which occurred on Thursday.

Authorities records detail that Medina25, who appears this Monday in an Illinois court, entered the country illegally in 2023 and that that same year he was arrested and released in Chicago for shoplifting.

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Medina faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated use of a firearm. for the aforementioned murder, which occurred on March 19 near a pier on Tobey Prinz Beach, Lake Michigan, near the university campus.

The police indicated that The victim, Sheridan Gorman, 18, was walking with some friends on the beach at one in the morning, when a suspicious person approached the group on foot, pulled out a gun and opened fire..

Gormanoriginally from New York, She was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported.

Police said she apparently was not the intended target of the attack by the suspect, who lived in the Rogers Park neighborhood north of Chicago, where the university campus is located.

At the same time as the police announcement, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) reported that an arrest warrant had been issued against Medina, because the suspect is an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela.

Lauren Bis, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said in a statement that Gorman “was failed by open border policies and politicians who favored sanctuary policies.”

Bis urged Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, not to release Medina, who is scheduled to make his first court appearance in the case this Monday.