Sheridan Gorman was an 18-year-old young lady attending Loyola University, where she was a freshman student. Sheridan and a group of friends were out walking along a pier to look at the skyline at Tobey Prinz Beach Park in Chicago. A pleasant evening left Sheridan Gorman dead when an illegal alien from Venezuela, who was reportedly hiding behind a lighthouse, came out onto a pier with a gun, and when Sheridan turned to try and run, she was shot in the back and killed.
The suspect, Jose Medina-Medina, had crossed the border illegally in 2023 and was released. A month later, he was caught and charged with shoplifting, but never showed up for his court date. Who could have imagined that?
The suspect, who has been in a hospital because he has tuberculosis, did not attend his arraignment hearing, apparently. Of course, Chicago is a “sanctuary city” and Illinois has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” although Illinois Comptroller Susana Mendoza did say allowing the alleged assailant, Jose Medina-Medina, to be back out “has not curtailed his illegal behavior.” No, indeed, much to the dismay and horror of Sheridan Gorman’s family and friends. Chicago Alderman Ray Lopez made the comment that “individuals who choose to engage in dangerous, criminal behavior, if they are non-citizens, we should not give them welcome. We should not give them sanctuary.”
Another point of view, that of Alderwoman Maria Hadden, was that, “It sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun.” “They might have startled (the shooter) at the end of the pier unintentionally.” Too many Democrat Socialists refuse to acknowledge the murder or rape or assault of victims of crimes committed by illegal aliens because it is inconvenient to their narrative and the plain truth is they don’t give a fig about the actual victims. For one thing, an illegal alien isn’t supposed to have a gun and Maria Hadden’s comment that Sheridan Gorman and her friends are somehow at fault for having startled a criminal who was armed are simply ludicrous. Evidently, Hadden’s notion is that Jose Medina-Medina was hiding behind the lighthouse, thinking over the cure for cancer or the solution to bring about world peace, when he was startled and came out, gun blazing.
Local and national media always try to soften the horrible details when it doesn’t fit their own narrative. One local newspaper cited a bogus study that insists illegal aliens commit fewer crimes than our own citizens, when the test had already been debunked and was likely done by Edna’s Cooking School.
The Democrat-Socialist party policy is all for illegals, and they care little or nothing about working Americans and families. It is simply disgusting to keep blaming the victim and trying to pretend the criminal did nothing wrong.
The Chicago Tribune got it right when it expressed the view that Sheridan Gorman was not in the wrong place at the wrong time but a victim of the system’s failure. The Gorman family had naturally objected to the notion that their daughter had recklessly put herself in danger. Sheridan had been with a group of her friends, near her dorm and in an area believed to be safe while hoping to see the Northern lights. So far, nobody knows why Sheridan Gorman was killed. What we do know is that the system failed her and her family. The cold-blooded murder of an 18-year-old girl ought to be met with more than a wall of silence.
Still, the Tribune first referred to Medina as a “Rogers Park man,” just as it once described Jose Albrego Garcia as a “Maryland man,” and completely omitted Sheridan Gorman’s murder in its Sunday edition. Evidently, the Tribune made up for it in the Monday edition of the paper in what has been described as one sentence at the bottom of the front page. Before mainstream media chose narrative over news, there was a time when such a murder would have generated banner headlines with aggressive reporters following leads, ferreting out information, and questioning local officials as to just precisely how such a terrible thing could happen. News and facts don’t even get a backseat treatment by the corporate media, as narrative is firmly in the driver’s seat. In fact, it seems that the actual details are frequently left by the roadside in the rush to report a narrative. Or the corporate media simply ignores the inconvenient truths that don’t advance their narratives.
The Tribune’s editorial did squall that some parents might refuse to allow their children to attend colleges and universities in Chicago if they didn’t believe it was safe. Not much has been said by Chicago’s media about Sheridan Gorman’s murder because it doesn’t fit the narrative of the mainstream media, which is an affiliate of the Democrat-Socialists. There was nary an article in Chicago’s PBS on Sheridan’s murder. So much for reporting.
Blackouts of news stories are becoming more and more common because to report the truth – to report what actually happened – would impair the narrative and the snake oil they are selling. We know it and you know it. They still haven’t figured out that we all know it and wonder why we don’t believe them.
