The parents of the New York teen viciously murdered near her Chicago university last month blasted the failed policies that released the illegal migrant suspected in the brutal slaying into the US.
“I don’t care what side of the aisle politically people are on, or if you’re right in the middle like us. This can’t happen. We’ve got to make changes,” Sheridan Gorman’s mother, Jessica, told “CBS Mornings.”
Gorman, an 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University, was allegedly gunned down as she was with a group of friends on a Chicago pier looking for the northern lights in the early hours of March 19.
Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan national, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in addition to attempted murder and gun charges.
Gorman’s heartbroken parents gave their first TV interview since their daughter’s death, ridiculing the failed policies from the Biden administration and the sanctuary laws in Chicago and Illinois that welcomed Medina-Medina.
The accused killer had been captured illegally entering the country in 2023, but was let go under Biden’s catch-and-release program and allowed to travel to Chicago, where he lived until allegedly murdering Gorman.
“There’s definitely policies that contributed to this happening and we can’t save Sheridan but we can’t just not do anything,” Thomas Gorman said in the clip released by the outlet Tuesday, hours before the full interview was set to air Wednesday morning.
President Trump lashed out at his predecessor and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, blaming their leadership for allowing Medina-Medina to be caught twice before being set free.
“The illegal alien monster charged with Sheridan’s brutal murder had come illegally from Venezuela and had been released into our country by Sleepy Joe Biden … pathetic, worst president,“ Trump fumed.
The Biden administration had released Medina-Medina because of a “lack of space” Fox News reported.
Thomas Gorman barked back against the debate over the failed policy, in an attempt to unite both sides following his family’s tragedy.
“We all should be able to agree about the safety of our kids,” he said.
Gorman, a Yorktown Heights, NY, native, was attacked while her friends while they taking photos on the pier.
Gorman’s family has defended her late-night adventure, calling it a typical college student activity.
“She was exactly where she should have been — close to campus, surrounded by friends, living her life,” the grieving family wrote.
Jessica Gorman vowed to get justice, only teasing what she wanted to see done to her daughter’s alleged killer.
“We are gonna get justice for Sheridan,” Jessica Gorman exclusively told The Post in March. “We have a voice and it’s gonna be heard. We are beyond shattered.”
After being freed into the US, Medina-Medina was only arrested once in Chicago, for theft in 2023.
He was released on bond and failed to appear in court with an arrest warrant issued for him but he remained free until he was captured in Gorman’s slaying.
Julie Koehler, the Assistant Public Defender representing Medina-Medina, called Gorman’s death a “tragedy” but claimed the murder suspect has the “development of a child,” and is missing part of his brain after being shot in the head as a kid.
He is currently being held in Cook County Jail without bail.
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