Chicago’s Brandon Johnson blasts 'assaults against immigrants' as slain Sheridan Gorman is laid to rest

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said the "assaults against immigrants" person to extremity arsenic Sheridan Gorman was laid to remainder connected Saturday.

Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was arrested aft helium allegedly killed 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago pupil Sheridan Gorman connected March 19 successful the aboriginal greeting hours. Medina-Medina is an amerciable migrant from Venezuela who archetypal entered the U.S. successful 2023, erstwhile helium was apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and released into the U.S. nether the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Johnson made the comments connected MSNBC during the "No Kings" protestation successful Chicago connected Saturday.

"We person [to] extremity the assaults against immigrants," Johnson said. "We person to get active. First of all, we person to marque definite that we're participating successful our antiauthoritarian process. We've already seen predetermination displacement astir this country, truthful things are happening. We person signed aggregate enforcement orders to unit ICE retired of the metropolis of Chicago."

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks during a quality league announcing the top-voted sanction successful the city's 2026 "You Name a Snowplow" contest, "Abolish ICE," Wednesday, March 25, 2026, successful Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

On Tuesday astatine a quality conference, Johnson was asked if helium would apologize to the Gorman household for the city's migration policies.

"Will you instrumentality this accidental to apologize to Sheridan's parents for the policies that you person promoted, that person straight caused her death? That fishy would not beryllium successful the city, would not beryllium successful the country, but for your policies. Will you instrumentality this accidental to apologize?" a newsman asked.

"Once again, I judge that we're each grieving the nonaccomplishment of Sheridan and different folks who person mislaid their lives due to the fact that of senseless violence," Johnson responded. "And let's conscionable beryllium precise clear, betwixt the SAFE-T Act and the welcoming metropolis ordinance, the welcoming metropolis ordinance was passed 40 years agone by the archetypal Black politician successful the past of Chicago, and the SAFE-T Act was passed nether the politician astatine that time, who was a Republican."

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

"There's nary words that 1 could explicit that could decently console a household that mislaid their baby. And my condolences to the Gorman family," Johnson said during a quality league connected Tuesday.

As Johnson made the comments astatine the "No Kings" protest, Gorman's household laid her to remainder and held a memorial work successful Yorktown Heights, New York.

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Gorman's household vowed to combat for justness connected Saturday during a memorial work and vigil.

"I privation to accidental this gently, but honestly, arsenic a mom. I'm angry," Jessica Gorman said. "I'm similar wholly heartbroken, and we are going to combat for justness for our saccharine Sheridan, and we're going to combat for change."

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

"At the bosom of each of this, we each privation the aforesaid happening — for your children and for ours to beryllium safe, to beryllium protected, and to travel home," Gorman's parent added. "Because, astatine the extremity of the day, that's what this is each about. All of our kids, each azygous 1 of them, protecting them, loving them, showing up for them. And that is however we grant her."

Thomas Tripodianos, an lawyer for the Gorman family, said during a vigil that young radical should consciousness safe.

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Tom, Jessica and Madelon Gorman get astatine a vigil successful Yorktown, New York.  (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

"If we judge this, adjacent silently, past we are accepting a world wherever young radical are not arsenic harmless arsenic they should be. And that is not acceptable," Tripodianos said. "And determination indispensable beryllium justice. Real justice."

Gorman's household antecedently criticized Johnson's remarks connected their daughter's death, saying her decease can't beryllium "reduced to a ‘senseless tragedy.'"

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A programme handed retired to supporters of the Gorman household who attended a memorial vigil held successful Yorktown, NY. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

"What happened to Sheridan cannot beryllium reduced to a ‘senseless tragedy,’ nor tin it beryllium explained successful wide presumption astir nationalist safety. Sheridan was our daughter. She was 18 years old. She was doing thing wholly normal—walking adjacent her field with friends. She should beryllium here," the Gorman household said regarding caller comments by Johnson. "We volition not let Sheridan’s beingness to beryllium reduced to a talking constituent oregon a generalization. We expect enactment that is consenting to face hard truths and guarantee that what happened to her does not hap again."

Medina-Medina was ordered by a justice to stay successful jailhouse connected Friday aft prosecutors alleged helium was hiding down a Rogers Park lighthouse earlier the shooting. Gorman, who was with her friends astatine the clip connected the pier, looked down the lighthouse and saw Medina-Medina there. Gorman past walked backmost towards her friends and mouthed "there's a antheral down the lighthouse," astatine which constituent Medina-Medina allegedly began chasing them.

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While the radical of radical were moving away, prosecutors said Gorman was changeable successful the precocious back. Her friends kept moving until they recovered a spot to hide, past went backmost to cheque connected Gorman, who was unresponsive.

While Medina-Medina was successful Colombia, helium was changeable successful the head, which resulted successful the nonaccomplishment of a information of his encephalon and skull, leaving him to relearn basal functions, his lawyer said. Medina-Medina's lawyer said that helium has the encephalon improvement of a kid and cannot work oregon write.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Johnson's bureau for comment.