{"id":22263,"date":"2026-03-26T01:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/loyola-student-paper-called-murder-suspect-illegal-then-apologized\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T01:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T01:13:05","slug":"loyola-student-paper-called-murder-suspect-illegal-then-apologized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/loyola-student-paper-called-murder-suspect-illegal-then-apologized\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyola Student Paper Called Murder Suspect \u2018Illegal\u2019 \u2014 Then Apologized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-text\">\n<div class=\"eifyuf80 css-5a7pfj\" style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p>Loyola University Chicago\u2019s student newspaper, The Loyola Phoenix, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/25\/us-news\/loyolas-student-newspaper-issues-apology-over-sheridan-gorman-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued an apology<\/a> and a lengthy editor\u2019s note after initially identifying the suspect in freshman Sheridan Gorman\u2019s murder as an \u201cillegal immigrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u2019s original headline read, \u201cImmigrant man charged in murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS involved\u201d \u2014 and the story correctly identified suspect Jose Medina-Medina as an \u201cillegal immigrant.\u201d Medina-Medina, 25, is a Venezuelan national who the Department of Homeland Security said had been \u201cliving in the United States illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper later edited the story to identify Medina-Medina as simply a \u201cRogers Park Resident,\u201d and included a lengthy editor\u2019s note apologizing for the previous characterization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat headline didn\u2019t reflect the most important elements in the story, and it was taken down minutes later to prevent any further harm to affected community members,\u201d the note read. \u201cAdditionally, in the body of the original post, we described the man who was charged as an \u2018illegal immigrant,\u2019 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 \u2026 No human\u2019s existence is illegal, and we quickly changed our wording to reflect that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House issued a statement on the murder, blaming liberal sanctuary city policies that protect illegal aliens in cities like Chicago: \u201cA preventable tragedy. Sheridan Gorman was murdered by an illegal alien released into the U.S. in 2023 under the Biden administration \u2014 a direct result of failed border &amp; sanctuary city policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When a reporter asked Democratic Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson whether he\u2019d apologize to Gorman\u2019s parents \u2014 for the sanctuary policies that had allowed Medina-Medina to live in Chicago \u2014 he opted instead to point the finger at President Donald Trump: \u201cHe points the finger at everything and everyone else versus doing some real self-reflection on what his responsibility is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/loyola-student-paper-called-murder-suspect-illegal-then-apologized\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loyola University Chicago\u2019s student newspaper, The Loyola Phoenix, issued an apology and a lengthy editor\u2019s note after initially identifying the suspect in freshman Sheridan Gorman\u2019s murder as an \u201cillegal immigrant.\u201d The paper\u2019s original headline read, \u201cImmigrant man charged in murder of Sheridan Gorman, DHS involved\u201d \u2014 and the story correctly identified suspect Jose Medina-Medina as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}