Chicago police detail how illegal immigrant accused of killing college student was caught: arrest report

The Venezuelan amerciable migrant accused of sidesplitting a assemblage pupil successful Chicago made 1 mistake that helped officials place him, according to an apprehension report.

Jose Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan national, was arrested connected Friday aft allegedly sidesplitting Sheridan Gorman, 18, 1 time earlier adjacent Tobey Prinz Beach. A constabulary root earlier told Fox News that the Thursday shooting was an evident ambush, adding that the fishy was reportedly wearing immoderate benignant of look disguise oregon covering. 

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

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.

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Sheridan Gorman smiles alongside the Chicago skyline successful Illinois.  (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

After the shooting astatine 1:06 a.m. connected Thursday, constabulary said successful the apprehension study that a antheral successful achromatic clothing, wearing a achromatic mask, 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. A fewer minutes later, helium was seen walking northbound done the eastbound alley of Sheridan Road earlier helium entered the backmost of his flat complex.

Gorman, who attended Yorktown High School successful Yorktown Heights, New York, was described successful an obituary arsenic idiosyncratic who "had a mode of making radical consciousness seen, valued, and believed in." While successful precocious school, Gorman participated successful tract hockey, lacrosse, and bowling "among galore different activities."

"People often accidental idiosyncratic 'lit up a room' oregon had ‘inner and outer beauty,’ but successful Sheridan’s case, those phrases autumn mode excessively short. She radiated thing adjacent greater—a uncommon and unmistakable warmth, a tone that was vibrant, compassionate, and afloat of life. She was funny, kind, and profoundly loving, with a bosom that made abstraction for everyone," her obituary states. "She loved fiercely—her family, her friends, her community, and her faith. She brought radical together, lifted them up, and made the mean moments consciousness bonzer simply by being successful them."

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Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan national, was besides arrested for shoplifting and released earlier the alleged murder, DHS confirmed.  (DHS)

"Though her beingness was acold excessively short, Sheridan’s interaction is immeasurable. She volition everlastingly beryllium remembered arsenic a bright, beauteous psyche whose emotion continues to radiance successful each who knew her," stated the obituary.

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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Flowers near successful representation of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman connected the pier astatine Tobey Prinz Beach successful Rogers Park, Chicago, IL., Monday, March 23, 2026. Gorman was fatally changeable connected the pier past Thursday, allegedly by an amerciable immigrant. (Kamil Krzacynski for Fox News Digital)

Following an apprehension for shoplifting successful Chicago, Medina was released connected June 19, 2023, DHS said.

He was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, 3 felony counts of aggravated battle with discharge of firearm and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, according to the Chicago Police Department.

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A wide presumption of Tobey Prinz Beach successful Rogers Park, Chicago, IL., Monday, March 23, 2026. Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was fatally changeable connected the pier past Thursday. (Kamil Krzacynski for Fox News Digital)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement lodged an apprehension detainer against Medina pursuing the alleged murder.

"We are calling connected Governor Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to perpetrate to not releasing this transgression amerciable alien from jailhouse backmost into American neighborhoods," DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said.

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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 Loyola's campus, astir 1 a.m. connected Thursday, according to reports. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

In a caller connection to Fox News, Gorman's household said their daughter's decease was a effect of systemic nonaccomplishment wrong the migration system.

"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 said. "This lawsuit indispensable beryllium prosecuted to the fullest grade of some authorities and national law. There tin beryllium nary gaps, nary shortcuts, and nary 2nd chances that enactment others astatine risk. Accountability indispensable beryllium complete."

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A wide presumption of Tobey Prinz Beach successful Rogers Park, Chicago, IL., Monday,  March 23, 2026. Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman was fatally changeable connected the pier past Thursday. (Kamil Krzacynski for Fox News Digital)

Alderwoman Maria Hadden told Fox 32 Chicago that Gorman's decease seemed to beryllium a lawsuit of "wrong spot astatine the incorrect time."

"The kids were retired doing mean things radical bash successful the neighborhood," she said. "They whitethorn person been successful the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time, moving into a idiosyncratic who had a gun."