Early Thursday, 18-year-old Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was murdered by a gunman on a Lake Michigan pier while walking with friends. More disturbing details arose Saturday night when Fox’s Matt Finn revealed the suspect was 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela who reportedly arrived during the Biden border crisis. Unsurprisingly, it took days for the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC to want to mention that on their flagship morning or evening newscasts. This heinous killing — which Finn’s colleague Bill Melugin dubbed “Laken Riley 2.0” — was previously covered by ABC and NBC, but it wasn’t until Monday night that any of them mentioned the crucial details about the suspect. Monday’s CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News barely covered it with news briefs tallying 32 and 23 seconds, respectively: ‘CBS Evening News’ and ‘NBC Nightly News’ barely covered it -- each in a scant news brief -- for a combined 55 seconds pic.twitter.com/Vkclx9KyYp — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 In CBS’s case, this marked the first time the murder was even mentioned. Anchor Tony Dokoupil noted the suspect is “a Venezuelan national in the country illegally with a prior warrant for his arrest tied to shoplifting charges” and that Gorman’s family had released a statement blasting the lax “policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime.” NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas called the development “a big update” and also relayed the same portion of the Gorman family statement denouncing the fact that Medina was even allowed to be out on the streets. If it’s such a “big” deal, why did you bury it, NBC? Shamefully, ABC’s World News Tonight was the only one to give a full report to this latest example of illegal immigrant crime following the Biden border crisis: Meanwhile, ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ had a full story from @RhiannonAlly on the Loyola student's murder, spanning 79 seconds (including the fact that his first court appearance has been delayed because he has tuberculosis) pic.twitter.com/Ux5602c02A — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 Here was the full segment as it aired from anchor David Muir and correspondent Rhiannon Ally. Crucially, ABC was the only network to mention the fact that the illegal alien’s first court appearance has been put on indefinite hold because he was diagnosed with tuberculosis (really) (click “expand”): MUIR: Back here in the U.S. tonight to the student from Loyola University Chicago who was shot and killed while walking with a group of her friends. A suspect tonight now charged and Homeland Security now saying he is in the country illegally. Here's Rhiannon Ally. ALLY: It was a shocking crime, 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University Chicago, was shot to death while walking with friends at a lakeside park. Tonight, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela has been charged with her murder. 9/11 DISPATCHER: Over at the beach, on Pratt, 1045 West Pratt, we got a person shot, and it’s a Loyola student. ALLY: Official say at 1 a.m. Thursday morning, the group walked onto appear when a masked suspect emerged, dressed in black. As the group fled, Gorman was shot in the back. LESLIE ZAMARRIPA: We should not be worried about walking to the beach and not expect to just get killed like that. ALLY: DHS says 25-year-old Jose Medina entered the country illegally in 2023. Gorman's family from Westchester, New York, saying in a statement, “this was a violent and preventable act. We are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime.” David tonight, the suspect has been hospitalized with tuberculosis, and his first court appearance has been postponed, David. MUIR: Rhiannon Ally with us tonight. Rhiannon, thank you. Rewinding back to the weekend, Sunday’s NBC Nightly Newshad the gall to cover it for 98 seconds, but hid from viewers the crucial details about the suspect. Sunday anchor Hallie Jackson twice teased the story before telling viewers of “a potential break in the investigation into the death of a Chicago college student shot and killed while out with friends.” Correspondent Valerie Castro couldn’t have been more vague: “Tonight in Chicago, police revealing a person of interest is now being questioned in connection with the death of Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University freshman.” WATCH: Sunday’s ‘NBC Nightly News’ had almost 90 seconds on last week’s murder of a Loyola of Chicago student and that “a person of interest” has been detained, IGNORING any mention of the fact that the suspect is an illegal alien from Venezuela pic.twitter.com/iqddWdSYVm — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 Castro went on: The death a shock to the close knit campus community in denial...“She was doing something entirely normal,” her family writing, “walking with friends close to home in an area where she had every reason to feel safe,” adding, “our daughter’s life was not expendable. She should still be here.” Friends placing flowers in the area where she died to commemorate her life...Tonight, a community left shattered and a family asking why. NBC was so convinced this was the way to go that they re-aired Castro’s piece on Monday’s overnight show, Early Today. Before the details about the suspect had come to light, Friday’s NBC Nightly News spent 97 seconds on the senseless killing and the heartbroken Loyola student body, further rendering Sunday’s update even more galling. Just over an hour prior to this bombshell about this illegal immigrant (who was also on the streets despite facing shoplifting charges), ABC’s World News Tonight had a 19-second brief on Saturday from Whit Johnson: Chicago police say they’re questioning a person of interest in the deadly shooting of a college student. 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was killed early Thursday morning. She had been walking with friends on a lakefront pier not far from Loyola University where she was a freshman. Police say they don’t believe she was the intended target. All told, the Sunday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News with Jericka Duncan, and NBC’s Sunday Today couldn’t be bothered to cover the murder, let alone do so accurately. Such was the case on Monday across all three network shows (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and NBC’s Today). But what made their silence even more embarrassing was the fact that, on Monday, the little-watched, overnight shows of Good Morning America First Look and CBS News Mornings were able to both cover Gorman’s death and spotlight the reality of migrant crime. While the lead ABC and CBS morning and evening shows chose to ignore through Monday morning the murder of Sheridan Gorman by an illegal alien, their little-watched, overnight shows ‘Good Morning America First Look’ and ‘CBS News Mornings’ told those who did watch them the truth pic.twitter.com/QzjLhTUVe7 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 GMA First Look had nearly two minutes, starting with co-host Sophie Flay cutting right to the chase: “We’re back with an arrest in the shocking murder of a college student in Chicago. Federal officials say the suspect entered the U.S. illegally.” Overnight ABC correspondent Alison Kosik didn’t waste anyone’s time either: Overnight, authorities announcing an arrest in the murder of Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman. Homeland Security officials say the alleged shooter is 25-year-old Jose Medina, who they say illegally entered the U.S. from Venezuela. They say he was released after being apprehended by Border Patrol back in 2023, and was released again after a shoplifting arrest in Chicago. Kosik included portions of the Gorman family statement none have covered before or since: Her family saying, “we will not allow this to be dismissed as ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ This was not random misfortune. This was a violent and preventable act,” adding, “we are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime.” After a vigil on campus, students are demanding more safety measures. CBS News Mornings had a 27-second brief from host Michael George about “charges...filed against a Venezuelan migrant in the shooting death of a Loyola University freshman” and that the foreign national “has been living in the U.S. illegally.” To see the relevant transcripts, click here (for March 20’s NBC Nightly News), here (for March 21’s World News Tonight), here (for March 22’s NBC Nightly News), here (for March 23’s ABC’s Good Morning America First Look), here (for March 23’s CBS News Mornings), here (for March 23’s World News Tonight), here (for March 23’s CBS Evening News), and here (for March 23’s NBC Nightly News). Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to reflect the coverage on the Monday night network newscasts.

In the latest edition of CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, host Margaret Brennen spent her interviews with U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte as opportunities to drive a wedge between the U.S. and international organizations, like NATO and the United Nations.  In her first interview of the show, Brennan talked to Waltz about Iran and the U.S.’s wish that other allies step up to help the U.S.’s military endeavor. Ambassador Waltz pointed out the Iranians' indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure in the Middle East, especially the futuristic infrastructure in oil-rich Middle East countries like the U.A.E., Qatar and Saudi Arabia.   CBS's Margaret Brennan, in her normal combative tone, spent a good amount of time on a Face the Nation interview with @USAmbUN Mike Waltz asking questions focused on a fear of potential US war crimes. pic.twitter.com/GL1nca0Ae6 — Nick (@nspin310) March 23, 2026   After Waltz said, “it should petrify every American that you could potentially have a nuclear Middle East awash in weapons,” Brennan started to get into her normal combative mode versus Republicans: BRENNAN: Well, they are not enriching. They weren't enriching leading up to this. This is what U.S. officials have testified to. But just on this point about what the president– WALTZ: Well they couldn't enrich because of Operation Midnight Hammer that obliterated their ability to enrich. They had every intent to continue. BRENNAN: They do have a nuclear power plant, Bushehr. It's actually their largest energy plant. It's a civilian site. It should be noted that the Iranian Deputy FM literally confirmed statements from WItkoff that they had enough nuclear material for “10.2 bombs.” Brennan’s angle to her questioning was clear after she brought up reports of U.S. and Israeli joint attacks on infrastructure in Iran, including power plants: Okay, but - but in this case, in that clarification, the reason I am asking you is when the president says he is going to bomb energy infrastructure, civilian energy infrastructure, is he going to bomb a nuclear power plant, or is that off the table. Now comes the clamoring for worry about international law: How do you ensure that this doesn't constitute a war crime, which the UN Secretary General said an attack on energy infrastructure could be. How do you make sure this is not mass punishment for innocent civilians? Waltz gave a response that referred to the regime’s slaughter of Iranian protestors and how those people cannot get nuclear weapons. Brennan went straight back to war crimes: No one is endorsing that but how do you make sure this doesn't hurt - (...) Okay, well, you know that in many of these places, water desalination is linked into that energy infrastructure, civilian infrastructure. This is why it is a question of it being a war crime. She doesn’t really care about war crimes or anything, its just her normal demeanor against conservatives and the Trump administration. Later on, Brennan clearly attempted to create a divide between NATO’s Rutte and the Trump Administration: “Well, I'm sure the president appreciates your praise, but he has been very frustrated, and made that clear this week with NATO and the European allies. He called NATO quote “a paper tiger without the US.” He said they complain about high oil prices when they forced to pay but they don't want to help open the Strait of Hormuz. Easy for them cowards. We will remember.”   Brennan also set out to attempt to drive a wedge between NATO and the US, while @SecGenNATO was having non of it, as the 'Trump whisperer' praised Trump. pic.twitter.com/bArhNMVpvF — Nick (@nspin310) March 23, 2026   Rutte responded and said there are plans being formulated to help the U.S. and open the Strait of Hormuz Brennan continued to push Rutte on Trump and NATO, and Rutte praised Trump: What I know is that we always come together. It was under President Trump's leadership that we had the extremely successful Summit in the Hague where we agreed to spend 5% of our GDPs on defense, and therefore equalizing for the first time since Eisenhower.  So this is quite some time - some time back in history, equalizing what the Europeans are spending and what Americans are spending, not only because it is fair that we all spend the same, and this was a wish from Trump 45 and now is Trump 47 he got this done, but also because we need it, because of the Russian threat and our other adversaries. It seems Brennan’s attempt to split the NATO General from Trump did not work. The exaggerated wedge between the US and NATO makes little sense with knowledge of Rutte’s tight relationship with Trump that brought NATO’s defense spending higher after “experts” warned of a looming collapse of US relations. Just like a lot of things that were seemingly feared, we’re all still in wait for the split of NATO. The transcript is below. Click "expand": CBS’s Face the Nation March 22, 2026 10:35:30 AM Eastern (...) AMBASSADOR MIKE WALTZ (US Ambassador to UN): And the president has been clear too. He's going to continue to pound Iran's capabilities, its missile, its naval and its drone capability. Margaret, we have to take a step back. We have seen what it's doing now in terms of attacking ports, airports, civilian infrastructure, hotels, resorts, and what it is trying to do to global energy supplies.  One can only imagine if it had a nuclear umbrella. One could only imagine if Iran achieved its aim to test. Then you have Saudi Arabia wanting a nuclear program, then perhaps the UAE, Turkey or others. And when people ask why this matters to our security here at home, it should petrify every American that you could potentially have a nuclear Middle East awash in weapons. MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, they are not enriching. They weren't enriching leading up to this. This is what U.S. officials have testified to. But just on this point about what the president– WALTZ: Well they couldn't enrich because of Operation Midnight Hammer that obliterated their ability to enrich. They had every intent to continue. BRENNAN: They do have a nuclear power plant, Bushehr. It's actually their largest energy plant. It's a civilian site. WALTZ: It is actually not their largest energy plant. It is about one, about one gigawatt. They have larger ones that are gas, fired outside of Tehran. But just case in point, yeah. BRENNAN: Okay, but - but in this case, in that clarification, the reason I am asking you is when the president says he is going to bomb energy infrastructure, civilian energy infrastructure, is he going to bomb a nuclear power plant, or is that off the table. WALTZ: Well, I would never take anything off the table for the president, certainly not on national television. However, there are larger plants. There is one outside of Tehran. There are others outside of other cities that are gas fired, thermal powered. I think the important point here is to understand the IRGC, a declared terrorist organization, not only by us -  BRENNAN: Yeah, in Europe too.  WALTZ: - but in a number of European countries, controls a huge swath of Iran's critical infrastructure, their economy and certainly many of their governing institutions. And so to the extent we are degrading their military capability and their defense industrial base, all options should be on the table, and the president has made that very clear. BRENNAN: How do you ensure that this doesn't constitute a war crime, which the UN Secretary General said an attack on energy infrastructure could be. How do you make sure this is not mass punishment for innocent civilians? WALTZ: Well, I think you know, I would encourage and will encourage the Secretary General to point out the twenty to thirty thousand Iranians that the regime massacred at scale, the civilian infrastructure that they are attacking - BRENNAN: - No one is endorsing that but how do you make sure this doesn't hurt- WALTZ: - And when you, but when have a regime that has its grips on so much critical infrastructure, that is using it to further not only the repression of its own people, to attack its neighbors, and in contravention of UN sanctions, to march towards a nuclear weapon, then that makes those legitimate targets. BRENNAN: Okay, well, you know that in many of these places, water desalination is linked into that energy infrastructure, civilian infrastructure. This is why it is a question of it being a war crime. WALTZ: I have no doubt that the president, the Pentagon, their team will ensure that what they target is geared towards the military infrastructure of Iran. But I have to tell you, they deliberately blend, have a long history, everything from hiding weapons under schools and hospitals to using power plants and other critical infrastructure to not only power their military but their civilian, and they deliberately blend in contravention of international law. (...) 10:46:00 AM Eastern BRENNAN: Well, I'm sure the president appreciates your praise, but he has been very frustrated, and made that clear this week with NATO and the European allies. He called NATO quote “a paper tiger without the US.” He said they complain about high oil prices when they forced to pay but they don't want to help open the Strait of Hormuz. Easy for them cowards. We will remember. NATO SECRETARY GENERAL RUTTE: I've been in several conversations this week with the president, and the good news is that, look, we had the U.S. for weeks planning for Epic Fury and for reasons of security and safety, they could not share with European allies and allies around the world and partner countries what they were doing, because that would have jeopardized the effect of the first - first attack - BRENNAN: - Or it would have allowed you to plan RUTTE: So it is only logical that European countries needed a couple of weeks to come together. But at this moment, the good news is this, that since Thursday, 22 countries, most of them NATO, but also Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Bahrain, the UAE, have come together to basically answer three questions, what do we need? When do we need it? And where do we need it? These three questions are now worked through to answer the president's call, to make sure that we secure the free sailing through the Strait of Hormuz. (...) 10:49:09 AM Eastern BRENNAN: The president continues to frame this as sort of like a quid pro quo, and he's also mentioned Ukraine in the same context, saying, I help Europe with Ukraine. Why aren't they helping me? Are you worried that this is going to hurt NATO's goals elsewhere? RUTTE: What I know is that we always come together. It was under President Trump's leadership that we had the extremely successful Summit in the Hague where we agreed to spend 5% of our GDPs on defense, and therefore equalizing for the first time since Eisenhower.  So this is quite some time - some time back in history, equalizing what the Europeans are spending and what Americans are spending, not only because it is fair that we all spend the same, and this was a wish from Trump 45 and now is Trump 47 he got this done, but also because we need it, because of the Russian threat and our other adversaries.  Then on Ukraine, it is again the U.S. providing critical intelligence support and weapons flow, working together with Europeans to secure Ukraine's fight against the Russians, making sure they have what they need. And now with Iran, I'm absolutely convinced, and I understand the president's frustration that it takes some time, but again, I also ask for some understanding, because nations had to prepare for this, not knowing and for good reasons about the initial attack on Iran, but now coming together to make sure that we can be able to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

After speaking with President Donald Trump on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his country will do whatever it takes to defend itself, regardless of any agreement the U.S. strikes with the terrorist Iranian regime. Netanyahu detailed his conversation with Trump in a video posted on his X.com account. In it, he reports that Trump is confident that an acceptable agreement to achieve U.S. military objectives can be reached with Iran: “Earlier today, I spoke with our friend President Trump. President Trump believes there is an opportunity to leverage the tremendous achievements we have attained with the U.S. military to realize the war objectives in the agreement—an agreement that will safeguard our vital interests.” Nonetheless, Israel is continuing its successful strikes on both Iran and Lebanon – but, with its hand “outstretched” – Prime Minister Netanyahu says: “At the same time, we continue to strike both in Iran and in Lebanon. We are crushing the missile program and the nuclear program, and continuing to inflict severe blows on Hezbollah. Just days ago, we eliminated two more nuclear scientists—and the hand is still outstretched.” “We will safeguard our vital interests in any scenario,” Netanyahu vows. Earlier today I spoke with our friend President Trump. President Trump believes there is an opportunity to leverage the tremendous achievements we have reached alongside the US military to realize the goals of the war through an agreement that will safeguard our vital interests. pic.twitter.com/15Z7fRvvQX — Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) March 23, 2026

ABC’s The View was outraged on Monday in reaction to President Trump’s Truth Social post celebrating the death of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, because of the Russia Collusion Hoax. The cast predicted “karma” would eventually find Trump and people would celebrate his demise. They also falsely suggested that no one celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk and whined that they had to hear about it.  “This is the same thing he did with John McCain after he died, this is the same thing he did with Rob Reiner. This is who he is because he is a mean person, with a dark heart, verbal diarrhea, and no impulse control,” screeched fake Republican Ana Navarro. “Mean,” “dark heart,” and “verbal diarrhea.” The same could be said about The View. Navarro went on to predict that karma would find Trump one day for his post and others would celebrate his death: But let me just say this, karma never forgets an address and he is 80 years old, he's got obvious visible physical ailments, and there will be people that when he passes away - as we will all passed away - will write these type of things and celebrate. “If you don't condemn it today from him you don't have a right to condemn it then from anybody!” Navarro scolded Trump’s supporters.   While condemning Trump for celebrating the death of Robert Mueller, Ana Navarro looks forward to the day they can all celebrate Trump's death: "This is the same thing he did with John McCain after he died, this is the same thing he did with Rob Reiner. This is who he is because… pic.twitter.com/LZGoTLI0LJ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 23, 2026   The left (and likely The View) would indeed celebrate the death of Trump or any Republican figure regardless of the post. The View, literally decried the notion of getting Supreme Court justices increased security after a liberal attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Navarro herself scoffed at the idea of decrying the use of political violence to kill Trump after the assassination attempts against him. The View even openly refused to tone down their incendiary rhetoric against Trump after the attempts to kill him and defended it. A short time later, on Monday, moderator Whoopi Goldberg insanely suggested that liberals didn’t celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “I listen to you guys kvetch and clutch your pearls about what you thought was being said about Charlie Kirk,” she whined. Still under the illusion that playing a nun in some comedy movies gave her the authority to lecture about God and religion, Goldberg lectured people on the right about not having “empathy” and “decency” during times like this: GOLDBERG: And yet you don't have the courage or the -- it's not even empathy. HOSTIN: Decency. GOLDBERG: Just the decency to say, 'do you know what, go with God. I didn't like what he did, I didn't like what he did to me, but go with God.' This is what we say about people we don't like. If we don't like their politics, if we don't like their personage, 'go with God. I don't like you, but god loves you.' That's what we do. That's how America is supposed to run regardless of what god you are talking about.   Whoopi Goldberg suggests no one celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination and whines about people who were upset by it. She then compares it to what Trump said about Mueller: GOLDBERG: I listen to you guys kvetch and clutch your pearls about what you thought was being said about… pic.twitter.com/2nUxxLEwTv — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 23, 2026   Meanwhile, after the assassination attempts on Trump, Goldberg lashed out his grandkids at the Republican National Conference and denied that Trump was a human being. Glaring at the camera, Goldberg demanded: “I know his grandchild was up on the thing and they're trying to humanize him and change your idea about who this guy is. Don't fall for that!” Don’t “fall” for what Whoopi? That Trump was human? The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 23, 2026 11:21:49 a.m. Eastern (…) ANA NAVARRO: This is the same thing he did with John McCain after he died, this is the same thing he did with Rob Reiner. This is who he is because he is a mean person, with a dark heart, verbal diarrhea, and no impulse control. But let me just say this, karma never forgets an address and he is 80 years old, he's got obvious visible physical ailments, and there will be people that when he passes away - as we will all passed away - will write these type of things and celebrate. If you don't condemn it today from him you don't have a right to condemn it then from anybody! (…) 11:23:03 a.m. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I listen to you guys kvetch and clutch your pearls about what you thought was being said about Charlie Kirk. I listened to you. We felt for his family. SUNNY HOSTIN: Absolutely. GOLDBERG: And yet you don't have the courage or the -- it's not even empathy. HOSTIN: Decency. GOLDBERG: Just the decency to say, 'do you know what, go with God. I didn't like what he did, I didn't like what he did to me, but go with God.' This is what we say about people we don't like. If we don't like their politics, if we don't like their personage, 'go with God. I don't like you, but god loves you.' That's what we do. That's how America is supposed to run regardless of what god you are talking about. And we will be right back before God gets mad at us.

Early Thursday, 18-year-old Loyola University of Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was murdered by a lone gunman on a Lake Michigan pier as she strolled with classmates hoping to catch the Northern Lights. Two days later, Fox’s Matt Finn revealed police detained a violent, 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela as suspect. Of course, he reportedly arrived in the U.S. during the Biden border crisis. Of course, this heinous killing — which Finn’s colleague Bill Melugin dubbed “Laken Riley 2.0” — has been of zero interest to the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC and CBS with zero mentions on Sunday or Monday. In NBC’s case, they had the gall to cover it for 98 seconds on Sunday’s Nightly News, but hid from viewers the crucial details about the suspect. Sunday anchor Hallie Jackson twice teased the story before telling viewers of “a potential break in the investigation into the death of a Chicago college student shot and killed while out with friends.” Correspondent Valerie Castro couldn’t have been more vague: “Tonight in Chicago, police revealing a person of interest is now being questioned in connection with the death of Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University freshman.” WATCH: Sunday’s ‘NBC Nightly News’ had almost 90 seconds on last week’s murder of a Loyola of Chicago student and that “a person of interest” has been detained, IGNORING any mention of the fact that the suspect is an illegal alien from Venezuela pic.twitter.com/iqddWdSYVm — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 “Goreman was shot and killed early Thursday just minutes from the Chicago campus at a beach along Lake Michigan. The death a shock to the close knit campus community in denial,” Castro added. The NBC reporter remarkable cut out the fact that Gorman’s family released their statement and phrased it as they did (“she should still be here”) because of the revelation about the suspect being in the country illegally: Her family says the 18-year-old was out with friends around 1:30 in the morning near this pier, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights when police say the group was approached by a masked man. The man fired a single shot and Sheridan and died at the scene according to authorities. “She was doing something entirely normal,” her family writing, “walking with friends close to home in an area where she had every reason to feel safe,” adding, “our daughter’s life was not expendable. She should still be here.” Friends placing flowers in the area where she died to commemorate her life. Castro quickly came to an end after the second of two soundbites from a friend of Gorman’s: “Tonight, a community left shattered and a family asking why.” NBC was so convinced this was the way to go that they re-aired Castro’s piece on Monday’s overnight show, Early Today. Before the details about the suspect had come to light, Friday’s NBC Nightly News spent 97 seconds on the senseless killing and the heartbroken Loyola student body, further rendering Sunday’s update even more galling for how little new information was offered. Just over an hour prior to this bombshell about this illegal immigrant (who was also on the streets despite facing shoplifting charges), ABC’s World News Tonight had a 19-second brief on Saturday from Whit Johnson: Chicago police say they’re questioning a person of interest in the deadly shooting of a college student. 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was killed early Thursday morning. She had been walking with friends on a lakefront pier not far from Loyola University where she was a freshman. Police say they don’t believe she was the intended target. Along with ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight with Linsey Davis, CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News with Jericka Duncan couldn’t be bothered to cover the murder, let alone do so accurately. But what made their silence even more embarrassing was the fact that both their little-watched, overnight shows — Good Morning America First Look and CBS News Mornings — were able to both cover Gorman’s death and spotlight the reality of migrant crime. While the lead ABC and CBS morning and evening shows chose to ignore through Monday morning the murder of Sheridan Gorman by an illegal alien, their little-watched, overnight shows ‘Good Morning America First Look’ and ‘CBS News Mornings’ told those who did watch them the truth pic.twitter.com/QzjLhTUVe7 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 GMA First Look had nearly two minutes, starting with co-host Sophie Flay cutting right to the chase: “We’re back with an arrest in the shocking murder of a college student in Chicago. Federal officials say the suspect entered the U.S. illegally.” Overnight ABC correspondent Alison Kosik didn’t waste anyone’s time either: Overnight, authorities announcing an arrest in the murder of Loyola university student Sheridan Gorman. Homeland Security officials say the alleged shooter is 25-year-old Jose Medina, who they say illegally entered the U.S. from Venezuela. They say he was released after being apprehended by Border Patrol back in 2023, and was released again after a shoplifting arrest in Chicago. In between two soundbites from a friend of Gorman’s, Kosik relayed the facts thus far of the case, including how, while Gorman and friends were on the Chicago pier, “a man approached the group, took out a gun, and opened fire,” leaving Gorman “shot in the head.” Kosik included portions of the Gorman family statement NBC were too cowardly to include: Her family saying, “we will not allow this to be dismissed as ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ This was not random misfortune. This was a violent and preventable act,” adding, “we are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime.” After a vigil on campus, students are demanding more safety measures. She wrapped by saying “Jose Medina is expected in court later today” and has “not yet entered a plea[.]” Following the Monday newscasts, it was shared the hearing did not go forward as this illegal alien was diagnosed with tuberculosis (really). CBS News Mornings had a 27-second brief from host Michael George: Well, breaking overnight charges have been filed against a Venezuelan migrant in the shooting death of a Loyola University freshman. Chicago police charged Jose Medina with murder and other charges in connection to Thursday’s shooting. 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was walking with friends near a pier when masked — when police say a masked gunman opened fire. The Department of Homeland Security says Medina has been living in the U.S.. illegally. He’s due in court today for a detention hearing. To see the relevant transcripts, click here (for March 20’s NBC Nightly News), here (for March 21’s World News Tonight), here (for March 22’s NBC Nightly News), here (for March 23’s ABC’s Good Morning America First Look), and here (for March 23’s CBS News Mornings).