A New York state lawmaker slammed America\u2019s \u201cclearly broken\u201d immigration system after a Venezuelan migrant was arrested for allegedly gunning down a teenager from his district.<\/p>\n
Sheridan Gorman, 18, from Yorktown Heights, died after she was shot in the head while walking along the Chicago lakefront with friends at 1:30 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n
A 25-year-old Venezuelan national was arrested on suspicion of murdering the Loyola College freshman, three years after he entered the US.<\/p>\n
Gorman, 18, from Yorktown Heights, NY, died at the scene after being shot in the head while walking along the Chicago lakefront. Instagram \/ @sheridang.gorman<\/p>\n
State Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Yorktown) thanked law enforcement for apprehending the suspect, but slammed the immigration system for allowing an alleged dangerous individual to be in the country in the first place.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot lose sight of the fact that this is the second time a member of our community has been victimized by this type of violence,\u201d Slater told The Post in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur immigration system is clearly broken and endangering innocent American citizens. No one should be a victim of a system that fails on multiple levels,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Slater was referring to the murder on Oct. 28, 2024, of 15-year-old Michael Raimondi at the hands of 40-year-old illegal migrant Fernando Jiminez.<\/p>\n
Gorman\u2019s family has confirmed that they are aware that their daughter\u2019s (pictured) alleged killer is a Venezuelan national. Instagram \/ Sheridan Gorman<\/p>\n
State Assemblyman Matt Slater blasted the immigration system after the murder of Loyola student Sheridan Gorman. Albany Times Union via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Michael\u2019s mother, Jiminez\u2019s ex-girlfriend Christina Raimondi, and Michael\u2019s brother Matthew were also shot in the attack at their home in Somers in Westchester County.<\/p>\n
Gorman\u2019s family has confirmed that they are aware that their daughter\u2019s alleged killer is a Venezuelan national.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was not inevitable. This was a choice. And our daughter paid the price for it,\u201d the family said in a statement Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur daughter\u2019s life was not expendable. She should still be here,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York state lawmaker slammed America\u2019s \u201cclearly broken\u201d immigration system after a Venezuelan migrant was arrested for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69874,57,3411,238,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":["post-171570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-loyola","tag-metro","tag-migrants","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}