Another American family is mourning a child they will never see again, and once again the fingerprints of our broken immigration system are all over the tragedy.
Eighteen-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University student from Westchester County, New York, was walking with friends near Chicago's lakefront early Thursday morning when a masked gunman approached their group and opened fire, according to Chicago police reports. Gorman was shot in the head and died at the scene, as confirmed by the same police statement; she had her whole life ahead of her.
Chicago police announced Saturday that a 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant has been taken into custody for questioning in connection with the murder, with investigators using surveillance technology to track the suspect's movements after the shooting and recovering a weapon during the arrest in the Rogers Park neighborhood Friday night, per the Chicago Police Department's press release.
Let's be clear about what happened here. A young woman is dead, her family is shattered, and the man police believe responsible should never have been in this country in the first place. Venezuela has been emptying its prisons and mental institutions and sending the results to our southern border for years, and American communities are paying the price.
The corporate media will bury this story by Monday. They always do when the facts don't fit their narrative. But the families in Rogers Park won't forget; neither should we.
Providence watches over the bold.
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