Sheridan Gorman was 18 years old. She had just started her freshman year at Loyola University Chicago, full of promise and potential, walking with friends along the lakefront in the early morning hours of Thursday. By 1:30 a.m., she was dead—gunned down by a masked shooter who approached the group and opened fire without warning.
The suspect now in custody is a 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant, according to reports from the Chicago Police Department. And it’s heartbreaking to see another American family destroyed, another young life extinguished, another community shattered. The details are as infuriating as they come: Sheridan wasn’t in a dangerous part of town at a dangerous hour doing something reckless. She was a college student taking a walk with friends near campus, the kind of ordinary moment that should never end in tragedy—but when you have open borders and zero vetting, ordinary moments become deadly gambles.
Chicago authorities have been tight-lipped about the suspect’s immigration status and criminal history, but sources confirm he’s a migrant from Venezuela, as reported by local news outlets. You know, the same country that’s been emptying its prisons and mental institutions and sending the contents northward—the same country whose gangs, like Tren de Aragua, have established operations in American cities, according to Homeland Security investigations. The corporate media will bury this story. They’ll focus on the suspect’s humanity, his struggles, the “root causes” that drove him to violence. They won’t spend much time on Sheridan’s humanity—her dreams, her potential, the hole she’s left in her family’s lives.
This isn’t an isolated incident. It’s a pattern, from Laken Riley to Jocelyn Nungaray to now Sheridan Gorman, as documented in various law enforcement reports. The Trump administration is trying to fix this disaster with mass deportations and restored border security, but every step forward meets resistance from those who created this crisis. There’s a special kind of evil in prioritizing the comfort of foreign nationals over the safety of American citizens. And how many more Sheridan Gormans must die before we acknowledge the obvious? Border security isn’t about being mean; it’s about protecting American citizens from people who have no right to be here and no respect for our laws.
Where are the politicians who championed sanctuary cities and catch-and-release? Will they look her parents in the eye and explain why their daughter had to die? Every American community terrorized by criminal aliens deserves better, and we won’t get better until we elect leaders who put our safety first, who enforce our laws, and who understand that compassion without wisdom is just cruelty by another name.
Providence watches over the bold.
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