The illegal migrant accused of executing a Chicago college student in cold blood last week failed to show up for a detention hearing Monday because he is being hospitalized for a rare contagious infection.
Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan national, was not at the hearing because he requires treatment for tuberculosis, the Chicago Tribune reported.
TB, a bacterial infection that can be spread by coughing, is rare in the US, but is much more common in Venezuela and other parts of South and Central America.
Jose Medina-Medina is accused of fatally shooting Loyola student Sheridan Gorman. DHS
Gorman, 18, was a freshman at the Chicago university. Instagram / Sheridan GormanMedina-Medina is charged with murdering 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University student from New York who was killed by a gunshot to the head early Thursday.
She and friends were near their campus around 1:30 a.m. while taking a walk to try to see the northern lights, when Medina-Medina allegedly jumped out and brandished a gun.
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When they fled, he allegedly fired a single shot that struck Gorman in the head and killed her.
He was apprehended entering the country illegally in 2023, but was released and ended up in Chicago.
Flowers left at Tobey Prinz Beach in Chicago near the scene where Gorman was killed. X / Mark WeyermullerMedina-Medina was then arrested for shoplifting, but the city’s sanctuary policies saw him turned back out on the street again.
The young business student just started at Loyola University in the fall, and had been ecstatic to start her new life in the big city after growing up in the small upstate New York community of Yorktown Heights.
But her life was callously cut short, leaving her family reeling with despair.
“When they say that your heart is broken or it feels like it’s ripped out of your chest, it’s real,” Sheridan’s mother, Jessica, previously told The Post through tears. “It’s so real, I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone.”
Medina-Medina was allegedly caught on camera shooting Sheridan, with his own mother helping ID him when investigators shared the footage, the Tribune reported.
He was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and weapons counts.
His next hearing was scheduled for Friday, though it remains unclear when he will appear in court after news of his illness — but Medina-Medina will remain in custody, even while hospitalized, until then.
