A Venezuelan illegal immigrant who was released into the country by the Biden administration has been identified as the suspect in the fatal Thursday shooting of Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Sunday. Jose Medina-Medina, 25, was arrested after he allegedly approached the college freshman, wearing black clothes and a black mask, before firing one round as she tried to run, according to DHS. Medina was released into the country after crossing the border illegally in May 2023, DHS said. The Venezuelan national then allegedly shoplifted from a local Macy’s in June 2023, according to the Chicago Tribune. He failed to appear for his hearing in that case, leading the judge to issue a warrant. As of September 2023, the warrant was still outstanding, according to the Tribune. The shooting occurred shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday while the 18-year-old student was walking with friends to see the Northern Lights, her family said. Police identified Medina because of his “distinct limp,” the Tribune reported. He was also seen without a mask in surveillance video taken inside an apartment building after the shooting. DHS is now pressuring sanctuary authorities in Illinois to not release the migrant monster. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer has been lodged with local police, who are not expected to honor it, due to sanctuary laws. “Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “We are calling on Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods,” Bis added. Gorman, a business student who hailed from New York, was involved in the Christian campus group Cru. Her grieving family said she had “a way of leaving people better than she found them” and that she “was exactly where she should have been — close to campus, surrounded by friends, living her life.” “What happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to the idea of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” the statement said. “This is not an abstraction. This is the loss of a daughter. The loss of a sister. The loss of a future filled with milestones that will now never come. Our family is forever changed,” they added. After learning that the suspect is a Venezuelan national, Gorman’s family called for “accountability” in the case. “As the case moves forward toward arraignment, the family has been informed that the suspect is a Venezuelan national and additional information is expected to be released. We are again faced with the unbearable truth: our daughter’s life was taken, and our family will never be the same,” they said, according to Fox News. “We recognize that the arraignment represents a formal step in the justice process, and we appreciate the work of law enforcement in bringing the case to this point. But for our family, this is not about a process—it is about accountability, and it is about ensuring that Sheridan’s life is not reduced to just another case moving through the system.”

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A family’s dog may have solved a notorious 160-year-old murder, after he dug up a bottle of poison buried in the garden. The Labrador unearthed a blue vial under his lawn in Devon, England, that his owner, Paul Phillips, thought was a pipe—until he saw the words ‘Not To Be Taken’ embossed on glass. The […] The post Wag-atha Christie Dog May Have Resolved Victorian Murder Digging Up Poison Bottle From 160 Years Ago appeared first on Good News Network.

The Shadow War Against President Trump

Like many on the left, Illinois Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker seems to have no issue leveling outrageous accusations against President Trump that have no basis in fact, but are accepted by a leftist media that is more than happy to facilitate the lies. In 2023, Pritzker said on MSNBC that some of Trump's language was reminiscent of the Nazi era, brought up Nazi Germany and the incoming Trump administration in his State Budget address in 2025 and in a softball interview on NPR, and has repeatedly claimed that Trump has dementia, most recently on Thursday's edition of CNN's OutFront with Erin Burnett. Burnett was speaking to Pritzker about the Iran war and Donald Trump, when she played a very short clip of the President from earlier in the day. BURNETT:  When President Trump was asked about boots on the ground a few days ago, he didn't rule it out. Now today, the wordsmithing is a bit different. Let me play it for you Governor. TRUMP CLIP: I'm not putting troops anywhere if I if I were, I certainly wouldn't tell you. But I'm not putting troops. BURNETT: So does that mean anything sort of saying, well, I'm not, but if I were I wouldn't tell you. So there's 2000 on the way. I mean what do you think's about to happen here, Governor? The first softball had been tossed. PRITZKER: Look, you never know with Donald Trump. And frankly, it's not because he's being wily. It's because there's something wrong with him honestly. So I'm very fearful that there will be more troops sent or that they'll go into combat anyway. You know we've got Illinois National Guard's people, men and women on the front lines out there. We've got members of the military from Illinois also in harm's way and we don't need to be in this war this should end. Next came the obligatory left wing talking points. PRITZKER: Now everybody's going to suffer, not just the people who are on the front lines, but also people all across the united States who are paying higher prices for gas. Oil prices are going to affect inflation. We've already seen that in the numbers. We didn't need to be in this position,  but Donald Trump has put us here. And contrary to what he promised when he ran for president. Time for softball number two.  BURNETT: Governor, at the beginning of your answer, you said something that just stood out to me. You said there's something wrong with him. What do you mean by that? PRITZKER: I mean, it's clear that he's not sure what he's saying from moment to moment, and then he'll promise something and then not deliver it. He'll say something, then he'll say something completely contrary to that. And I don't know anybody that acts like that, that doesn't have some kind of a problem. And some kind of issue, thinking things through. That is what I think. And I've been saying that for some time. I think he's got some dementia. Burnett then reacted as if she had no idea he had said the same thing in the past BURNETT: You think he's got dementia That's that's what you think we see when we see sentences like, I just played there then. PRITZKER: Exactly. And then you know, you're hearing contrary things from one hour to the next. And not just about war, about lots of other things. You might think, oh, he's being secretive. Well, not when he's talking about, well domestic cost of goods, for example, or tariffs or other things. The man, there's something wrong with him. I can't diagnose it, but I'm sure other people can.  Burnett might have followed up with, "Not delivering on promises, for a politician is not unusual, neither is saying different things in public about military strategy while we are at war." She might of asked, "You say Trump has dementia, but you defended Joe Biden after the Hur Report said of him, a jury would see him as an 'elderly man with a poor memory.'" Of course she did not. The best she could come up with was, "Obviously we don't have any reporting on that (Trump's alleged dementia), but I just wanted to understand exactly what you were saying there." I think it was quite obvious to all. It sounded like she wanted to make him repeat the smear, underline it. 

A Brazilian state deputy put on blackface during a government proceeding in order to protest another member of the federal government.Fabiana Bolsonaro, a state rep. of the São Paulo State Legislative Assembly, shocked attendees on Wednesday when she applied brown makeup not only to her face, but to her arms as well.'I want precisely to show that it's useless to put on makeup.'Now, lawmakers are now calling for the Liberal Party member's removal and have filed an ethics complaint against her, according to Brazilian outlet Folha de S. Paulo.However, Bolsonaro made it clear during her speech that her reason for putting the makeup on was to protest another member of government. Bolsonaro was protesting the appointment of Erika Hilton as chair of the Chamber of Deputies' Women's Rights Committee because Hilton — born Felipe Santos Silva — is a male who believes he is a woman.Santos Silva is a federal deputy from Brazil's Socialism and Liberty Party, which holds 14/513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, equivalent to the U.S. House of Representatives.During Bolsonaro's speech, the politician explained she was protesting the idea that one can become a woman simply by declaring so."I, being a white person who has lived everything that I lived as a white person, now at 32 years old, decide to put on makeup, to dress myself up as a black person, applying makeup and making only the outside appear [black]. ... Have I become black?" she asked, according to a translation.RELATED: Alleged forced labor scandal rocks EV industry: ‘This is the price of environmentalism’ "Am I black now?" she continued.Bolsonaro put emphasis on the fact that she could not possibly have experienced what it is like to be black in Brazil simply by putting on makeup."I want precisely to show that it's useless to put on makeup. It's useless to pretend something," Bolsonaro added. "I say to you as a woman: I am a woman. It does no good to dress up as a woman. I am not offending any transsexual. Quite the contrary, I am saying that I am a woman." The liberal also called out the accolades that Hilton has acquired since posing as woman, saying, "The Woman of the Year cannot be a transsexual. ... Someone took her place to put a transsexual there."RELATED: Megyn Kelly reminds America: Jimmy Kimmel wore blackface — yet she was the one canceled Photo by Mauricio Santana/Getty Images Hilton has been named as Woman of the Year by Marie Claire Brasil, celebrated as a model for Sao Paulo Fashion Week, and given the label of having won the most votes of any woman in Brazil by British Vogue in 2020.Bolsonaro remained respectful in her comments, however, saying that "transsexuals must be respected," and claimed there is "an increase in the murder of transsexual people."She concluded, "I don't want any trans person to go through prejudice, murder, or discrimination for being trans. But I also don't want any trans to take my place."Bolsonaro, who is not related to former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, changed her name in 2022 ahead of elections in support of the president, GB News reported. Her former name was Fabiana Barroso. At the same time, she changed her racial classification from white to mixed-race, the outlet stated.Since the remarks last week, Hilton has requested electoral authorities to investigate Bolsonaro's change of racial identification, based on Brazilian regulations introduced in 2021 that increased public funding for candidates who are black or female.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!