Chicago Official Says Murder Victim May Have ‘Startled’ Alleged Illegal Alien Shooter

A Chicago alderwoman appeared to blame an 18-year-old woman for her own fatal shooting last week, allegedly at the hands of an illegal alien.

Chicago police announced Sunday that Jose Medina-Medina had been arrested for the murder of Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University. Chicago Alderwoman Maria Hadden speculated that Gorman was in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”

“From, from what, from what I’ve been told so far, right, from what police know, from, from speaking to the students who were with her, it seems she might have, that as they were just out, you know, people go out to the beach all the time, right?” Hadden, whose campaign website touts her status as the “first Black, queer woman elected to Chicago City Council,” said during a Thursday report by Fox 32 Chicago. (RELATED: Blue State Democrats Block Debate On Bill To Notify ICE Of Violent Illegal Immigrants)

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“And they go out on the pier, they walk around, so the, the kids were out doing normal, normal things people do in the neighborhood. And it sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun, they might have unintentionally startled this person, I think.”

Medina-Medina had been apprehended by Border Patrol agents in 2023, but was released, according to a Sunday social media post from United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

“18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman was allegedly shot and killed last Thursday morning in the sanctuary city of Chicago by a criminal alien who should have never been here,” ICE said. “Venezuelan national Jose Medina-Medina was apprehended by Border Patrol in May of 2023 and released into the country under the Biden admin. He was then released again [in] June of 2023 following an arrest for shoplifting in Chicago.”

“Sheridan Gorman’s life was allegedly taken from her at the hands of a criminal alien shielded by the anti-American sanctuary policies of the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois,” ICE continued. “ICE has issued an immigration detainer for Medina-Medina and we implore Chicago, IL, politicians to honor it.”

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