Parents of Sheridan Gorman Call Her Murder 'Preventable' in White House Video

Name: "Parents of Sheridan Gorman Call Her Murder 'Preventable' in White House Video"
Uploaded: 2026-04-22
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: "The White House video carries the account of Sheridan Gorman's parents, who describe how their daughter was shot on a Lake Michigan pier and call the killing a preventable murder, citing the immigration and release history of the man police arrested, as stated by the family and authorities cited in the video."

April 22, 2026 · The White House · 0:02:01

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What happened

The White House video recounts the killing of Sheridan Gorman, who on March 19 went with friends to see the northern lights on Lake Michigan at around 1:30 a.m., about a block and a half from campus. As her parents told it, Gorman encountered a masked gunman at the end of the pier, turned and warned her friends that there was a man with a gun and they needed to run; she made it about 40 feet before he shot her in the back, as the family stated it, and they credited her with saving her friends.

Her parents rejected the description of the killing as a senseless tragedy, saying, as they stated it, that it was a murder — a preventable murder. The video reports that police arrested 26-year-old Jose Medina, a Venezuelan who authorities say entered the country illegally, and notes his lawyer’s claim that he lost part of his brain and skull after being robbed and shot in the head in Colombia in 2018 and has the mental capacity of a child. Her father answered, as he stated it, that Medina had the capacity and wherewithal to buy a gun, wear a mask, and wait with the gun pointed at his daughter.

According to the Department of Homeland Security as cited in the video, Medina was first apprehended by Border Patrol in May 2023 and released into the country under the Biden administration, and about a month later was caught shoplifting in Chicago, arrested, and released again, after which an arrest warrant issued when he did not show up for court. The parents said there needs to be cooperation between state and local government and federal officials when someone who is here illegally commits a crime, and that in their view he should have been handed over to the federal authorities.

Why it matters

The video extends the White House’s ’this is our why’ series of victim-family accounts, using the Gorman case to argue that catch-and-release practices and non-cooperation between local and federal authorities enable preventable killings.

Sources: The White House, “Sheridan Gorman tragically murdered by an illegal alien, parents calling it "a preventable murder"”, 2026-04-22 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-04-22). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.