Chicago mayor doubles down on illegal alien 'assault' comment after Sheridan Gorman's death

Chicago's politician successful a Tuesday quality league doubled down connected caller comments that sparked backlash successful the aftermath of the sidesplitting of 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago pupil Sheridan Gorman.

At a "No Kings" rally successful the Windy City connected Saturday, Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed to halt "assaults" connected immigrants. The comments came connected the aforesaid time that Gorman was buried, drafting fierce disapproval from some. The fishy successful her execution is Jose Medina-Medina, 25, an amerciable migrant from Colombia.

"We person [to] extremity the assaults against immigrants," Johnson said astatine the rally. "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."

Sheridan Gorman was killed aft being changeable successful the caput portion taking a locomotion with friends astatine Tobey Prinz Beach, located little than a mile from the Illinois’ campus, astir 1 a.m. connected Thursday, March 19, according to reports. (Sheridan G. Gorman via Instagram)

Asked by a newsman connected Tuesday whether helium would apologize to Gorman's parents, Johnson ducked the question.

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"I volition again admit the calamity of the nonaccomplishment of beingness here," Johnson said. "You know, look, burying a kid is thing that nary genitor should person to do, particularly arsenic idiosyncratic who is simply a parent. The calamity that occurred is 1 that, rather frankly — it challenges america to bash amended to guarantee that we are protecting radical — and you know, arsenic acold arsenic the telephone for nary kings, what I said, and I inactive basal by this, that we bash person to support moving people. We bash person to guarantee that the migrant assemblage is not being assaulted."

"Violating people's Constitutional rights does not marque america safer," the politician continued.

A antheral carries a framed collage of photos extracurricular a ceremonial work for Sheridan Gorman astatine First Presbyterian Church of Yorktown, successful Yorktown Heights, New York. (Richard Beetham for Fox News Digital)

He was asked the aforesaid question successful a quality league past week, and besides answered indirectly.

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"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."

Medina-Medina is accused by prosecutors of hiding down a lighthouse earlier moving toward Gorman and her friends, firing his limb indiscriminately. The alleged execution took spot successful the aboriginal greeting hours of March 19.

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)

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The amerciable alien fishy has been charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, aggravated discharge of a firearm and amerciable possession of a weapon.

Medina-Medina entered the state illegally nether the Biden medication and was released into the country, DHS said.

Medina-Medina was arrested successful 2023 and charged with shoplifting aft helium allegedly stole conscionable implicit $130 successful merchandise from a Macy's successful downtown Chicago. He failed to look for tribunal hearings related to that case, and an apprehension warrant remained progressive until the alleged murder.

Gorman's household ripped Johnson for his archetypal effect to her alleged murder. 

"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 household said. 

Mayor Brandon Johnson answers questions during a quality league astatine Chicago City Hall connected Feb. 25, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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"Calling this ‘senseless’ is not enough. There indispensable beryllium a wide and honorable accounting of what went wrong," the household added. "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."

The suspect's lawyer says that aft crossing the borderline illegally, helium was bused from Texas to Chicago, contempt requesting to beryllium sent location to Columbia, according to The Chicago Tribune. The governor's bureau reportedly said they person nary grounds of busing Medina-Medina anywhere.

Johnson's bureau declined to comment.