{"id":178433,"date":"2026-03-28T21:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T21:11:33","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-private-funeral-service-held-for-yorktown-college-student-fatally-shot-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/178433\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Private funeral service held for Yorktown college student fatally shot in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yorktown community is gathering for a private funeral service Saturday to say a final goodbye to 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the Loyola University freshman was fatally shot on March 19 by a masked gunman, steps away from her Chicago campus.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago police say the gunman was <a href=\"https:\/\/news12.com\/new-details-in-the-death-of-yorktown-native-suspect-makes-first-court-appearance-in-chicago\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">25-year-old Jose Medina-Medina<\/a>, an illegal immigrant from Venezuela, who is now charged with first-degree murder and other felony charges.<\/p>\n<p>A solemn procession of mourners arrived at first Presbyterian Church to pay their final respects to Gorman.<\/p>\n<p>Those who knew her described the graduate of Yorktown High School, as a bright light, loved by her friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yorktown community is gathering for a private funeral service Saturday to say a final goodbye to 18-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,2464,786,10687,9873,9,24,63,8413,7318,1628,69190,72131],"class_list":["post-178433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-funeral","tag-immigrants","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-student","tag-venezuela","tag-westchester-county","tag-yorktown","tag-yorktown-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178433","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=178433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}