Chicago mayor asked about city's immigration policies after illegal immigrant allegedly killed college student

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was asked astir the city's migration policies connected Tuesday erstwhile addressing the decease of Sheridan Gorman, who was allegedly killed by an amerciable immigrant.

25-year-old Venezuelan nationalist Jose Medina was arrested Friday aft allegedly sidesplitting Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University student, connected Thursday adjacent Tobey Prinz Beach. Johnson addressed the tragic shooting connected Tuesday for the archetypal time, and was asked if helium would apologize for the city's migration policies.

"Will you instrumentality this accidental to apologize to Sheridan's parents for the policies that you person promoted, that person straight caused her death? That fishy would not beryllium successful the city, would not beryllium successful the country. But for your policies, volition you instrumentality this accidental to apologize," a newsman asked.

"Once again, I judge that we're each grieving the nonaccomplishment of Sheridan and different folks who person mislaid their lives due to the fact that of senseless violence," Johnson responded. "And let's conscionable beryllium precise clear, betwixt the Safe-T Act and the welcoming metropolis ordinance, the welcoming metropolis ordinance was passed 40 years agone by the archetypal achromatic politician successful the past of Chicago, and the Safety Act was passed nether the politician astatine that time, who was a Republican."

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks astatine a rally successful Chicago connected Oct. 18, 2025.  (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images)

While Johnson said helium hasn't spoken with Gorman's household yet, helium plans to bash so.

"There's nary words that 1 could explicit that could decently console a household that mislaid their baby. And my condolences to the Gorman family," Johnson said. 

He besides called retired President Donald Trump, who helium says "refuses to beryllium held accountable."

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Sheridan Gorman was allegedly killed by Jose Medina connected a pier successful Chicago. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram, DHS, and Kamil Krzacynski for Fox News Digital)

"He points the digit astatine everything and everyone other versus doing immoderate existent self-reflection connected what his work is," Johnson said.

In October, Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker posted a satirical video from the streets of Chicago portion helium was wearing a bullet-proof vest, trying to marque a constituent astir however harmless the metropolis is.

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Medina, an amerciable migrant from Venezuela, was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol connected May 9, 2023, and was released into the U.S. nether the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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In an earlier connection to Fox News Digital, the Gorman household said they are disappointed with policies that allowed Medina to stay successful the country.

"We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this idiosyncratic to stay successful a presumption to perpetrate this crime. When systems fail—whether done merchandise decisions, deficiency of coordination, oregon unwillingness to act—the consequences are not abstract. They are real. And successful our case, they are permanent," the household wrote.

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Sheridan Gorman was killed aft being changeable successful the caput portion taking a locomotion with friends astatine Tobey Prinz Beach, located little than a mile from the Illinois’ campus, astir 1 a.m. connected Thursday, according to reports. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

According to an apprehension study obtained by Fox News Digital, Medina was seen connected video successful his flat building's lobby waiting for an elevator portion helium wasn't masked aft the alleged shooting. A gathering technologist told constabulary that helium knew the fishy who had a "very chiseled limp and gait." 

Following the shooting astatine 1:06 a.m. connected Thursday, according to the apprehension report, a antheral successful achromatic clothing, wearing a achromatic disguise and walking with a "distinct limp and dilatory gait" was seen walking from the determination of the shooting to Pratt Boulevard astatine 1:12 a.m. Just a fewer minutes later, the idiosyncratic was seen walking northbound done the eastbound alley of Sheridan Road earlier helium entered the backmost of his flat complex.

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Sheridan Gorman stands extracurricular Soldier Field up of a Chicago Bears crippled successful Chicago. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

Images of the fishy were sent to a constabulary database, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection identified the fishy arsenic Medina. He was arrested astatine his flat successful Rogers Park, according to the apprehension report.

Medina told officials successful 2023 that helium was surviving astatine Leone Beach Park fieldhouse successful Rogers Park successful 2023, which was being utilized arsenic a city-sponsored structure for migrants. The city-sponsored structure closed successful 2024, according to South Side Weekly.