Sheridan Gorman’s father is decrying the sanctuary policies that resulted in his daughter’s alleged killer being out on the streets. Venezuelan national Jose Medina, 25, allegedly gunned down the 18-year-old Loyola University freshman in Chicago last month. At the time, Gorman was walking with her friends around 1 a.m. to look for the northern lights near the Chicago lakefront. Before that, Medina had crossed the border illegally in May of 2023 and was subsequently released into the country. He was caught allegedly shoplifting from a Chicago Macy’s that June, according to the Chicago Tribune. When the illegal immigrant failed to appear for his hearing in the case, a warrant was sworn out for his arrest. Sheridan’s father is now arguing that local authorities should have handed Medina over to federal authorities at the time due to his lack of immigration status. “There needs to be some cooperation between state and local government and federal officials. When someone commits a crime and they’ve been here illegally, there needs to be cooperation,” Sheridan’s father, Thomas Gorman, told CBS News in an interview that aired Wednesday. “He was arrested for, yes, a nonviolent crime, but he was also here illegally. In our mind, he should’ve been handed over to the feds at that point,” the grieving father added. Sheridan’s mother said they were told their daughter likely saved her friends’ lives the night of her murder. “He, like, moved towards her threateningly,” Jessica Gorman, Sheridan’s mother, told CBS News of Medina’s actions that night. “She turned around and she warned her friends that there was a man with a gun, and you need to run. And they ran.” Sheridan was able to run about 40 feet before she was shot in the back and neck, Thomas said. “They say it was a senseless tragedy. It wasn’t. It was a murder. It was a preventable murder,” Jessica said. Medina was charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder in the first degree, three counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, and one count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer with local authorities, but it is not likely to force any action due to sanctuary laws in Illinois. Before he was released into the country after crossing the border, Border Patrol agents said that Medina was “likely to abscond,” according to federal documents that were recently obtained by House Judiciary Committee Republicans. The agents also noted that Medina didn’t make any asylum claims, writing that he did not “fear harm or persecution” if returned to Venezuela. Meanwhile, Medina’s defense has argued that the Venezuelan national is developmentally delayed and can’t read or write after being shot in the head during a 2018 robbery in Colombia, according to WGN.