Sheridan Gorman’s alleged illegal immigrant killer caught with weapon while in jail custody, police say

A amerciable migrant from Venezuela charged successful the March sidesplitting of Loyola University pupil Sheridan Gorman was caught with a limb portion successful custody, constabulary said.

The Cook County Sheriff's Office said Cook County Jail unit recovered a 6-inch shank successful Jose Medina's possession astir 8 a.m. Thursday.

Correctional officers searched the 26-year-old and recovered a sharpened portion of metallic with a grip fashioned retired of aesculapian portion from his pants pocket, the sheriff's bureau said.

The Cook County State's Attorney's Office approved a caller felony complaint of possession of contraband successful a penal instauration against Medina connected Friday.

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The antheral charged with the execution of a Loyola University freshman successful a Rogers Park shooting successful March was recovered with a limb successful jail, the Cook County Sheriff's Office said. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)

Medina has been successful custody since March 23. He is charged with shooting 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman to decease astatine Tobey Prinz Beach successful Rogers Park connected March 19.

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Medina has pleaded not blameworthy to charges successful Gorman's killing. His adjacent tribunal day is June 1.

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Sheridan Gorman was changeable and killed portion walking with friends adjacent Tobey Prinz Beach, little than a mile from the Illinois campus, astir 1 a.m. connected Thursday, March 19. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

Gorman was with friends astatine a Rogers Park pier erstwhile she looked astir a lighthouse and saw Medina nearby.

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She walked backmost toward her friends and mouthed, "There’s a antheral down the lighthouse," prosecutors said. Medina past allegedly began chasing them.

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As Gorman and her friends ran away, Medina changeable her successful the precocious back, according to prosecutors. Her friends kept moving until they recovered a spot to hide. When they returned to cheque connected Gorman, she was unresponsive.

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An apprehension study obtained by Fox News Digital states that Medina was seen connected video aft the shooting successful the lobby of his flat building, waiting for an elevator without a mask. A gathering technologist told constabulary helium recognized the suspect, who had a "very chiseled limp and gait."

Jose Medina, a Venezuelan national, was arrested for shoplifting and released earlier the alleged murder, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed. (DHS)

Fox News Digital antecedently reported that Medina was apprehended astatine the confederate borderline successful 2023, flagged arsenic a formation hazard and determined to person nary valid asylum assertion earlier being released into the U.S. that twelvemonth nether the Biden administration.

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Records bespeak helium did not person a valid U.S. code oregon recognition and could not supply a verifiable constituent of contact.

Fox News Digital's Adam Sabes contributed to this report.