Migrant arrested in Loyola student’s murder has been AWOL from court case since 2023: records
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We have learned more about the Venezuelan migrant being questioned by Chicago police in connection with the murder of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman, who was shot in an apparently random and unprovoked attack on the pier at Loyola Beach this week.
CWB Chicago reported Saturday evening that Chicago police detained a 25-year-old man around 9 p.m. Friday while executing a search warrant at an apartment building in the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road, less than two blocks from the pier in Rogers Park. The search turned up a firearm that was sent to a ballistics laboratory to determine whether it fired the bullet that struck Gorman, who was killed by a single shot to the torso, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Sources familiar with the investigation said Saturday they had found no indication of any provocation or altercation leading up to the shooting. When Gorman and her friends crossed paths with the gunman near the pier’s light beacon at 1:11 a.m. Thursday, he was wearing a ski mask or other face covering. He fired once, striking Gorman in the torso, though CPD initially reported she had been shot in the head. Detectives used footage from multiple cameras to track the suspect to the apartment building, where additional footage captured him without the face covering, and someone associated with the building recognized him, sources said.
We are not naming the man because he has not been charged with any wrongdoing in connection with Gorman’s death.
Court records show he was arrested in mid-June 2023 for allegedly shoplifting merchandise worth $132 from the Macy’s at 111 North State Street in the Loop. Arrest records show he listed 1222 West Touhy Avenue in Rogers Park as his home address at the time — the address of Leone Beach Park, where the fieldhouse had been converted into a migrant shelter by City Hall. Leone Beach Park forms the north end of Loyola Beach.
According to court records, he was released from custody “by rule of the court,” a cash bail-era procedure by which people charged with non-violent crimes were released on their own recognizance. He never showed up for court again, records show. After his first failure to appear in July 2023, Judge Peter Gonzalez granted a 30-day continuance. When a Macy’s representative appeared for that date and the man once again failed to appear, Gonzalez issued an arrest warrant requiring a $50 deposit to be released from jail. He was never caught.
Questions are also being raised about statements officials made after Gorman was murdered.
Ald. Maria Hadden (50th) told her constituents Friday morning that “the investigation has so far led police to believe that there is no broader threat to neighbors or the Loyola community.” Loyola’s president said Thursday morning that “there is no ongoing threat to our campus community.” But both statements were made while the killer remained unidentified, at large, armed, and apparently willing to kill without motive or provocation.
Gorman’s family issued a statement Saturday morning pushing back on a Sun-Times headline that characterized her death as “ WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME .”
“She was exactly where she should have been — close to campus, surrounded by friends, living her life,” the family said, noting she and her friends had gone to the lakefront hoping to see the Northern Lights. “What happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to the idea of someone being 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 filled with milestones that will now never come. Our family is forever changed.”
“Sheridan was our daughter, our sister, and the heart of our family. She was full of life, full of kindness, and full of a love that she gave freely to everyone around her. She made people feel seen. She made people feel valued. Whether it was her friends, her family, or someone she had just met, Sheridan had a way of leaving people better than she found them.”
“Sheridan deserved a full life. She deserved the future that was taken from her. We will not allow her to be remembered as just another story. She was extraordinary, and she will always be loved.”
“We cannot accept a world where moments like this become something people grow used to. We cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to violence. When we begin to accept these tragedies as inevitable, we all become vulnerable to them. Apathy is not harmless — it allows these moments to repeat.”
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Just another life tragically ended decades too soon and a family destroyed because progressives embrace open borders and refuse to even deport criminals. Their policies have killed thousands of Americans and they are fighting in congress to make sure thousands more die.
What's really sad is the party that constantly risks hurting themselves from patting their own backs to hard about how empathetic they are simply don't care about this girl, her family or the thousands of others they've harmed. Making sure the party is protected is what actually matters.
"As the case moves forward toward arraignment the family has been informed that the suspect is a Venezuelan national and additional information is expected to be released. We are again faced with the unbearable truth: our daughter’s life was taken, and our family will never be the same."
The real cost of sanctuary cities you never hear progressives address..
Did we ever think we would live in such a country?
But according to the idiot Democrats and their mindless followers this was "a "migrant" trying to make a better life for themself."
FFS even the author couldn't call it wat it is.
All of it was preventable. He should have never been released into the country in the first place. After shoplifting and not showing for a hearing he should have been turned over to ICE.