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The family of Sheridan Gorman is pushing back on comments from Chicago and Illinois leaders, saying her killing was not a “senseless tragedy” and demanding accountability for what they call systemic failures.
18-year-old Gorman was killed on March 19 at around 1:06 a.m. while she was with friends at a pier on the city’s Rogers Park area. Officials say that Jose Medina-Medina, 25, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, allegedly fired one shot at the Loyola University Chicago student, killing her. Medina-Medina was apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol on May 9, 2023, and was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Gorman family on Wednesday released a statement criticizing both Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, saying that her death “demands accountability.”
“What happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to a ‘senseless tragedy,’ nor can it be explained in general terms about public safety. Sheridan was our daughter. She was 18 years old. She was doing something entirely normal—walking near her campus with friends. She should be here,” the Gorman family said regarding recent comments by Johnson.
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Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman poses with the school’s mascot during a campus event in an undated photo. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)
“Calling this ‘senseless’ is not enough. There must be a clear and honest accounting of what went wrong,” the family added. “We will not allow Sheridan’s life to be reduced to a talking point or a generalization. We expect leadership that is willing to confront hard truths and ensure that what happened to her does not happen again.”
Gorman’s family also responded to Gov. Pritzker’s recent comments on the freshman college student’s death, writing that “calling this a tragedy is not enough.”
“Sheridan’s death cannot be reduced to a general “tragedy,” nor can it be explained away by broad references to failures somewhere else. Sheridan was a daughter, a sister, and a young woman whose life was taken in a way that should never have been possible,” the family said. “We are not interested in political arguments or in watching responsibility shift from one place to another. If there were failures—as the Governor himself has acknowledged—then every one of them must be identified, examined, and addressed directly. The location of those failures matters less than the willingness to confront them honestly.”
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Jose Medina-Medina, a Venezuelan national, was also arrested for shoplifting and released before the alleged murder, DHS confirmed. (DHS)
“Our daughter is not a policy debate. She is a life that was taken, and that demands accountability,” they added.
Pritzker on Tuesday shifted blame to the Trump administration during an event, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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“This has been a terrible tragedy, and I know that the Gorman family has suffered mightily… There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. That’s their national failures, a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst,” Pritzker said.
Johnson on Tuesday also addressed Gorman’s death, saying that her life was taken due to “senseless violence,” but called out President Trump as well.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks at a rally in Chicago on Oct. 18, 2025. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images)
“There’s no words that one could express that could properly console a family that lost their baby. And my condolences to the Gorman family,” Johnson said. “You know what the bigger threat to our public safety, it’s illegal weapons that are being trafficked from bordering states that voted for Donald Trump. This president refuses to be held accountable. And he points the finger at everything and everyone else versus doing some real self-reflection on what his responsibility is.”
“We know that this president has not taken this situation in this challenge in our country seriously, because my question would be, isn’t it time for the president of the United States of America in Congress to actually act and pass comprehensive immigration reform?” Johnson continued.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, center, speaks in Chicago. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
“There’s no words that one could express that could properly console a family that lost their baby. And my condolences to the Gorman family,” Johnson said.
In a statement to Fox News Digital, White House Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said President Donald Trump’s immigration policies have kept Americans safe.
“In record time, President Trump has totally secured the border, ended Biden’s border crisis, and deported countless dangerous criminal illegal aliens. Those are real solutions that keep the American people safe. Meanwhile, slobs like Pritzker have constantly defended dangerous criminal illegal aliens and attempted to obstruct the important work of the Trump Administration. Pritzker’s policies make the American people less safe,” Jackson said.
Homes in Yorktown Heights, New York, Gorman’s hometown, were lit up in green on Tuesday night to honor the slain Chicago college student. according to CBS News.
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A home displays a green porch light in honor of murdered Loyola student, Sheridan Gorman, in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Gorman was shot to death in Chicago last week, allegedly by an illegal migrant. (Fox News Digital)
A home displays a green porch light in honor of murdered Loyola student, Sheridan Gorman, in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Gorman was shot to death in Chicago last week, allegedly by an illegal migrant. (Fox News Digital)
A home displays a green porch light in honor of murdered Loyola student, Sheridan Gorman, in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Gorman was shot to death in Chicago last week, allegedly by an illegal migrant. (Fox News Digital)
An arrest report obtained by obtained by Fox News Digital shows that Medina-Medina was seen on security video in his apartment building’s lobby waiting for an elevator while unmasked after the alleged shooting. A building engineer told police that he knew the suspect, who had a “very distinct limp and gait.”
Police said Medina-Medina was wearing a black mask and black clothing as he walked away from the shooting, noting that he had a “distinct limp and slow gait.” He was seen walking from the location of the shooting to Pratt Boulevard at 1:12 a.m. Just a few minutes later, the individual was seen walking northbound through the east alley of Sheridan Road before he entered the back of his apartment complex.
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Sheridan Gorman was killed after being shot in the head while taking a walk with friends at Tobey Prinz Beach, located less than a mile from the Illinois’ campus, around 1 a.m. on Thursday, according to reports. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)
Images of the suspect were sent to a police database, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection identified the suspect as Medina-Medina. He was arrested at his apartment in Rogers Park, according to the arrest report.
Medina-Medina told officials in 2023 that he was living at Leone Beach Park fieldhouse in Rogers Park in 2023, which was being used as a city-sponsored shelter for migrants. The shelter closed in 2024, according to South Side Weekly.
Fox News Digital reached out to Johnson and Pritzker’s office.
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Man United’s big night was disappointing, but not their spirit
MANCHESTER, England — Bayern Munich‘s wonderful forward Pernille Harder grew up in a Manchester United household. Her father supports the club, so naturally she followed in his footsteps. She remembers Ryan Giggs’ goal against Arsenal in 1999, and her dad frequently giving her updates on how fellow Dane Peter Schmeichel was doing in goal for the club.
But unfortunately for United, that passion for the club has morphed later in life into Harder’s uncanny ability to score against them. On a freezing night, she scored near-identical goals in each half at Old Trafford and though United fought back on both occasions, Momoko Tanikawa‘s 83rd-minute winner gave the German side a 3-2 win and a firm hold on the tie ahead of the return leg in Munich next week.
It wasn’t meant to be like this from a United perspective. Marc Skinner’s pre-match message to the Manchester United players ahead of one of the biggest nights in the women’s team’s history was to “maximize the moment.”
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He wanted his team to embrace everything that came with their UEFA Women’s Champions League quarterfinal first leg against Bayern Munich: to walk tall in Old Trafford and write their own page in the rich history of this fixture between the two clubs. He said they had to fight from the first until the last minute.
And then United conceded after 98 seconds. Their defense was bisected by a single ball from Arianna Caruso, leaving Harder with what seemed like eons to pick her spot and give Bayern the lead.
Everyone has a plan until you’re punched in the face and all that. Perhaps by the time United’s players had compartmentalized all the pre-match messaging and done their best to mentally set themselves for such an occasion, the first jab floored them.
But credit to United, they pulled themselves together, got off the canvas, and a handball from Bayern captain Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir gave Maya Le Tissier a chance to draw things level. But from there, United never really took charge of the match, remaining reactive rather than ever being on the front foot.
This is all uncharted territory for this group of United players in what is their first foray in the Champions League. Every match is a raw experience. And on top of that, you feel they’re navigating a lot of this with one hand tied behind their back, such is the paper-thin nature of their squad.
Tonight they were without key players Ella Toone, Anna Sandberg, Dominique Janssen, Leah Galton and Ellen Wangerheim.
Their midfielder Hinata Miyazawa won the Asian Cup for Japan in Sydney on Saturday, arrived back on Monday, trained Tuesday and played tonight. She’s the heartbeat of the team. All of those absentees left Skinner with an easy decision over which team to pick, given he only had five outfield players on the bench.
So it was a familiar refrain when Tanikawa sent another through ball in and around the heart of United’s defense to give Harder time again to make it 2-1 in the 71st minute. United only needed five minutes to strike back with Hanna Lundkvist heading home a corner, but at this point, you felt United had expended all their energy.
It was a frantic match, and at times sloppy and scrappy, but Bayern still had a gear or two, and it was no surprise to see Tanikawa stroke home a beautiful winner with six minutes left. Advantage Bayern, but United aren’t completely out of it.
United’s budget is far lower than their Women’s Super League rivals Arsenal and Chelsea, who played last night in their quarterfinal at the Emirates, so it is to their immense credit that they’ve progressed this far, especially given this journey started back on Aug. 27 with a qualifying match against PSV. Then came their group stage, where they beat Paris Saint-Germain and Juventus, but fell to OL Lyonnes and Wolfsburg.
So with Bayern coming to town, a team unbeaten in 12 and sitting atop the Frauen-Bundesliga with an 11-point advantage, United were underdogs. But despite their awful start, they didn’t give an inch from thereon in, but it always felt like Bayern were the better team.
Harder is United’s bête noire. She has five goals and two assists in eight appearances against them across both her time at Chelsea (2020-23) and this match with Bayern.
You’d have thought they’d have learnt that if you give her an inch, she takes a goal. She was ruthless, while Georgia Stanway was industrious in midfield, and Franziska Kett was also outstanding. And all that without the brilliant Klara Bühl and Lena Oberdorf. At times, Bayern looked a little bit sluggish, as their passes weren’t quite on point and the odd lapse let United have more time in front of goal than they should have been afforded.
Perhaps that’s what happens when you have a huge lead at the top of the league and you’re swiping aside opponents week after week. Their 20 or so fans who travelled were vocal throughout, sometimes the only voice booming out from the sole stand with spectators, though their rendition of “Football’s Coming Home” in the closing stages was a little strange.
For United, Lea Schüller‘s form in front of goal remains a concern. She was signed from Bayern to be their new focal point up front, but she has a meager return of just one goal so far, which came against third-tier Burnley in the FA Cup.
Again, she rallied against Bayern and got through an awful lot of work, but just couldn’t get the breakthrough. Le Tissier got through an awful lot of work in defense, while Julia Zigiotti Olme was their best player in midfield. Jess Park showed some great flourishes off the wing, but United ultimately didn’t have the firepower to convert from open play.
Two set-piece goals was a decent return from the chances created, but they have to find more oomph up front if they are to win in Munich.
The nostalgia of this fixture was inescapable; it’s just a shame there weren’t more fans there to soak it in. The attendance of 7,513 left oceans of empty seats in Old Trafford, and judging from the TV screens in the press box, it would’ve made sense to fill the TV arc on the far side of the stadium to at least show this match wasn’t a throwback to the pandemic days of sparse stadiums.
However, to those who did turn up watched a United team that did heed Skinner’s wish of fighting to the bitter end. The only issue for United was that Bayern just had a touch more class, and a player in Harder who loves scoring against them.
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Cuban president says Raúl Castro involved in US talks that are in early stages
HAVANA — Former Cuban President Raúl Castro is involved in talks between the island and the United States, and they’re still in the early stages, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Wednesday.
The talks come at a time of increasing tensions between the two nations, with Cuba plagued by nationwide blackouts resulting from a crumbling power grid and an ongoing oil blockade implemented by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has threatened tariffs on any country that provides oil to Cuba and recently said he’d have “the honor of taking Cuba” soon.
The talks overall are being handled collectively by the Cuban government, Díaz-Canel told Spanish leftist leader Pablo Iglesias in a videotaped interview that lasted more than an hour and was shared by state media. Though Diaz-Canel became president in 2018, 94-year-old revolutionary leader, brother of Fidel Castro, is still considered the most powerful person in the nation.
Iglesias was in Cuba as part of a delegation of some 600 activists from 33 countries who arrived last week to deliver humanitarian aid.
“A process of conversations that leads to an agreement is a long process,” Díaz-Canel told Iglesias, who produced the interview for his crowdfunded TV channel, Canal RED.
“First, we must build a channel for dialogue. Then, we must build common agendas of interests for the parties, and the parties must demonstrate their intention to move forward and truly commit to the program based on the discussion of those agendas,” Díaz-Canel said.
In late January, Trump threatened tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba as he pushes for a change in the island’s political model.
Although the initial threats were formally softened, the embargo has remained in place, and the island has not received any fuel shipments in the past three months.
Prolonged power outages and a near-paralysis of economic and social life are the visible consequences on the island, which in the last week experienced two nationwide blackouts that left millions without electricity as Cuba’s power grid continues to crumble.
The U.S. has said that Cuba was in negotiations, and Trump has threatened that he would take over the island soon.
Díaz-Canel was more nuanced in his response and said his officials and those from the U.S. State Department “held recent talks.”
He also addressed speculation surrounding the role that Castro, would be playing a role in these overture.
“The other thing they’ve tried to speculate about is that there are divisions within the leadership of the revolution,” Díaz-Canel said, not clarifying who he was referring to.
Castro “is one of those who, along with me and in collaboration with other branches of the (Communist) Party, the government, and the State, has guided how we should conduct this dialogue process, if this dialogue process takes place,” the president added.
He noted that Castro is “the historical leader of this revolution, even though he has relinquished his responsibilities,” and that he maintains a “prestige earned with the people” due to “historical recognition that no one can deny.”
Raúl Castro, who succeeded his brother, Fidel, as president, led historic talks with former U.S. President Barack Obama in 2014 that led to the reopening of embassies and re-establishment of diplomatic relations.
Trump has opposed such policy, tightening sanctions even further, exacerbating a deep economic crisis to the extreme of the current energy blockade.
Meanwhile, UN officials on Wednesday called for urgent solutions to a rapidly spiraling crisis in the Caribbean nation, which is increasingly taking a human toll.
They namely highlighted the desperate need for fuel to enter Cuba, but also highlighted solar power as a potential solution to keep schools and hospitals up and running and to pump water for irrigation.
“If the current situation continues and the country’s fuel reserves are depleted, we do fear an accelerated deterioration with the possible loss of lives,” said Francisco Pichón, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Cuba.
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Citizens Advice has warned it is already giving “crisis support” every 30 seconds ahead of household bills including council tax and water rising from April.
The advisory service said it had helped more than 51,000 people with crisis support so far this year, with renters, disabled people and single parents among those most likely to seek assistance.
When broader cost-of-living issues like energy bills and council tax arrears were included, the number of people seeking help reached 175,000.
The charity warned the figures indicated how many household budgets had already “gone beyond breaking point”.
Of those the charity had helped, average debt had reached a record £9,500, up 12% on last year.
On average, more than a third of this debt (42%) was arrears on essential bills such as energy and council tax.
Citizens Advice said it anticipated the number of those in debt would rise further, with global instability threatening more price shocks and essential bills going up in April.
It said government moves including scrapping the two-child benefit limit and bringing down energy bills from April were “steps in the right direction” but warned more help was needed.
It is calling for better-targeted support for those who are struggling the most with energy bills, help with rent costs and speeding up action to get people out of debt.
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Citizens Advice chief executive Dame Clare Moriarty said: “Our data reveals the scale of the problem facing people – households are buckling under cost-of-living pressures, and too many are reaching crisis.
“Every day our advisers see people at breaking point, with nowhere left to cut back and debts spinning out of control. Now, worrying global events look likely to bring fresh challenges to already stretched budgets.
“That is why the Government must give a lifeline to the households struggling the most. This should include help with rent costs, better-targeted support with energy bills, as well as measures to tackle record-breaking levels of debt.”
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Manchester United refuse to give up on Champions League dream
Skinner’s counter to the idea his side may have been better advised to drop slightly deeper to prevent Harder making those runs was sound.
“There are two mistakes in there from us,” he said.
“If you get pressure on the ball, you can’t play the long ball. They tried it a few times and played the ball out of play.
“It worked for them tonight but if I stop those two chances, they don’t score.”
It sounds simple. But execution is key at the highest level. If you don’t do that properly, you will get punished.
There are a number of minor details to explain why United came out on the wrong side of a tight result.
One of them is unquestionably squad depth.
Take the case of Japan midfielder Hinata Miyazawa, who played in the final of the Asian Cup in Sydney on Sunday, then travelled back to start for United.
By contrast, Tanikawa, who did not get on the pitch against Australia, started on the bench for Bayern, who were mindful of the effects of jetlag and wanted the midfielder to make an impact, which she did, by setting up Harder, then scoring the winner.
Skinner simply does not have enough players to rotate like that.
It makes the next few days, which feature another Old Trafford outing against Women’s Super League leaders Manchester City on Saturday before the trip to Germany for the second leg with Bayern next Wednesday (17:45 BST), particularly tough.
“We’ve played the most football in Europe this year, and we’ve got a really small squad right now, so it will challenge us,” said Skinner.
“It will take us to the depths. But the carrot is there for us.
“We expect it to be difficult. You can kind of trench your mind into what you must do.
“That’s why my players are at Manchester United. If they didn’t want to do it, they wouldn’t be at this club. They’re going to give it absolutely everything.”