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<p>Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed allegedly by an immigrant in the country illegally, according to police.</p>
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<p>The Loyola University Chicago student who was shot and killed last week was a “beautiful person” and a “genuine soul,” campus leaders said amid mourning over the 18-year-old’s murder. </p>
<p>Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed early on March 19 while walking with her friends near the Jesuit university’s campus, officials said last week. </p>
<p>Law enforcement has alleged that 25-year-old Jose Medina carried out the killing. Medina had reportedly been observed acting strangely in the area; witnesses said he opened fire on Gorman and her friends when they walked nearby. </p>
<p>Medina was living in the country illegally, police said. Federal immigration officials have placed a detainer against him in order to arrest him if he is released from police custody, while local officials in Chicago are moving to prosecute him for the murder. </p>
<h3>‘Compassionate, selfless, kind’</h3>
<p>The Catholic university mourned the news of Gorman’s passing, with leadership lamenting the loss of the New York state native who was just finishing up her freshman year there. </p>
<p>Loyola Cru, a Christian campus ministry at the school, said in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DWNBeA-EfL5/?img_index=9">an Instagram post</a> that Gorman was “an absolute delight.” </p>
<p>The group described her as “compassionate, selfless, kind, generous, joyful, willing, and so much fun. A beautiful person and a genuine soul.”</p>
<p>The Christian student organization said it was “heavy with grief” but that it was “hold[ing] that in tension with the reality that Jesus is our refuge and shelter.” </p>
<p>“The darkness of this world does not overshadow the light of Christ’s love,” the group wrote. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.inclusivefuneralcare.com/obituaries/sheridan-gorman/#!/Obituary">Gorman’s obituary</a> said she “loved [her faith] fiercely” along with “her family, her friends, [and] her community.” A native of Yorktown Heights, New York, she is survived by her mother, Jessica, and father, Thomas, as well as her sister, Madelon. </p>
<p>A GoFundMe set up to raise money for a memorial scholarship in Gorman’s honor said she “loved Jesus, her family &#8230; her lifelong friends, and the simple, beautiful moments that made up her life.” </p>
<p>“She had a way of making everyone feel special, seen, and loved,” the fundraiser said. “To know her was to be changed by her.”</p>
<p>In a letter to the school’s community, university President Mark Reed described Gorman’s death as a “tragic loss” for the school. </p>
<p>Reed urged the school to petition St. Joseph “to intercede for our grieving community and for the family of our beloved student Sheridan.” The school also hosted a memorial vigil for Gorman on March 19. </p>
<p>At an event at City Club Chicago on March 23, meanwhile, Cardinal Blase Cupich said he had spoken with Gorman’s parents amid their grief.</p>
<p>“Tom and Jessica &#8230; are taking this very hard,” the cardinal said. </p>
<p>The Chicago archbishop said Tom Gorman said to him on the phone: “Every parent says that their kid is the best in the world. But mine was.”</p>
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