by Andrea Widburg
On March 19, Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old freshman at Loyola University in Chicago, was murdered when she and her friends went out to spot the northern lights. A masked gunman randomly shot her in the back of her head and neck. Using CC cameras, the cops eventually located and arrested Jose Medina, an illegal alien who entered the U.S. under Biden, was detained and released, and then failed to appear in court on shoplifting charges.
The reason I haven’t commented on the story is that it’s so sadly common that I couldn’t think of anything to add. It’s becoming a dog bites man story: “Illegal alien who entered the country under Biden ends a young American’s life.” Same old story, and then the Democrats come out and blame the victim (which we’ve always been told you cannot do), or they blame Trump, or, of course, they blame the gun. The illegal alien is absolved from responsibility.
My commentary would be too simple for a post: Allowing unvetted illegal aliens into the country is a terrible idea. Gun control does not stop bad people from doing bad things. The killer is entirely responsible for this foul deed, but I also blame those who opened the border, since this murder would not have happened but for the Democrats’ aggressively violating U.S. immigration laws.
The reason I’m posting today is that there’s more to the story, and it’s utterly infuriating.
The first maddening thing is that Medina missed his first court appearance because he’s being hospitalized (at taxpayer expense, of course) with tuberculosis:
An illegal migrant from Venezuela is the suspect in the shooting killing of an 18-year-old female @LoyolaChicago student. Suspect Jose Medina did not show up to his first court hearing because he's being treated, at taxpayer expense, for tuberculosis. pic.twitter.com/jV5r6MGjIV
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 24, 2026
Tuberculosis is not an inconsequential disease. Around 1900, tuberculosis was annually responsible for 10-12% of all deaths in America. Translated into today’s population numbers, that would be over 34 million TB-related deaths a year. The number dropped significantly by the 1940s thanks to better treatment (this is a fascinating first-hand autobiography about having TB in the 1930s, written by the author of the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle children’s books), but it was still a devastating and deadly disease.
The scourge of TB was just one of the reasons that immigrants to America were required to go through formal immigration processes, the most famous taking place at Ellis Island off the coast of New York. This was one way to keep deadly diseases from entering our country.
What really changed things was the advent of antibiotics. Then, TB seemed kind of irrelevant...that is, until AIDS and an enormous number of drug abusers who failed to follow through on their antibiotic treatments. Suddenly, TB was back, and many strains were drug-resistant. It’s still treatable, but it takes more work, more time, more medicine, and more money. And Jose Medina, illegal alien and accused killer, is sucking up that labor, time, medicine, and money.
Here’s the second maddening thing. It’s entirely possible that this TB-infected illegal alien is a Tren de Aragua member who slaughtered Sheridan Gorman as part of a gang initiation:
I am starting to suspect that the story about Jose Medina is worse than what we've been told. The "tuberculosis" isolation keeping him out of court is suspicious--and this photo (if it's him) could raise the possibility Sheridan's execution was part of a gang initiation.
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 25, 2026
If this… https://t.co/65Spxylzab
And now, the third maddening thing: The Loyola campus newspaper apologized for how it reported Sheridan Gorman’s death. It didn’t get her name or age wrong. It didn’t misstate the date or manner of her death. No.
The problem, according to the editor of the Loyola Phoenix, is that it referred to Medina, a TB-infected illegal alien (which is the proper statutory term for a person illegally in this country), as...an “illegal immigrant.” Indeed, the original (and accurate) title of the Phoenix report was “Immigrant Man Charged in Murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS Involved.”
But that was wrong. So wrong. The updated report, found here, is entitled “Charges Filed Against Man Arrested in Murder of Sheridan Gorman,” making no reference to his immigration status or DHS. Additionally, the first paragraph describes Medina as a “Rogers Park Resident.” Only in the third paragraph does it delicately say he “was living in the United States illegally.”
The editor’s note is almost as long as the article. Regarding the changed language, it says:
...in the body of the original post, we described the man who was charged as an “illegal immigrant,” using language provided by the Department of Homeland Security. That language does not align with Associated Press style, nor does it align with the values of this newspaper.
If you’re wondering what those values are, the editors (presumably led by Lilli Malone, the white, female editor-in-chief) explain in the most groveling terms:
No human’s existence is illegal, and we quickly changed our wording to reflect that.
We acknowledge the harm such language can cause and the power and importance of the words we choose to use. We deeply regret these errors...
Jonathan Turley has the perfect riposte:
...The editors declared, “No human’s existence is illegal, and we quickly changed our wording to reflect that.” The reference was to his status, not his existence. Sheridan's existence allegedly ended at the hands of a man living here illegally.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) March 25, 2026
If you’re wondering about the collapse of journalism in America, this is it, writ large. These are the graduates who staff America’s newsrooms: Truly awful middle-class Marxists, indoctrinated in America’s academic institutions.
Sheridan Gorman’s death was a completely preventable tragedy. And everything else—the alleged killer’s illegal presence here, his bringing in a deadly disease, his possible gang membership, and a university newspaper’s anguished apology for calling him what he is—explains how this preventable tragedy happened.
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