Illegal Immigrant Accused Of Killing Loyola
Student Is Missing Brain Part, Has "Development
Of A Child," Defense Claims
California Post,
by
Priscilla Degregory
Original Article
Posted By: J. Arthur Brown,
3/28/2026 11:24:31 AM
The Venezuelan illegal immigrant accused of murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman is missing a part of his brain and has the "development of a child," his lawyer said in court Friday. Jose Medina-Medina was held without bail by Chicago Judge D'Anthony Thedford (snip.) Medina-Medina was shot in the head during a robbery when he was living with his mom in Colombia (snip.) He's being treated at the health facility inside the Cook County Jail, where his lawyer asked he remain so that immigration officials don't arrest and deport him.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 3/28/2026 11:28:51 AM (No. 2086009)
wow.. couldn't ask for a better "judge" for a criminal..
"Mr. Thedford earned his Bachelor of Arts from Southern Adventist University and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law. He is a board member of the Illinois Prison Project, a former board member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and a former President of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jdano 3/28/2026 11:30:18 AM (No. 2086010)
From an episode of Law and Order. His doctor was convicted. The killer walked.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 3/28/2026 11:33:05 AM (No. 2086012)
I thought we only got the best and brightest
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/28/2026 11:47:14 AM (No. 2086018)
The poor mentally crippled man had sense enough to get here to America, cross our borders and murder a student. He has enough sense to sit in the electric chair and pay his debt.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lanetam 3/28/2026 11:50:40 AM (No. 2086021)
It all comes back to he should not have been allowed in the country in the first place.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Melanie 3/28/2026 11:54:41 AM (No. 2086023)
With half his brain missing he will fit right into Chicago Politics. He should run for city council.
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As usual other countries empty their prisons and insane asylums into our country.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jean123 3/28/2026 12:06:47 PM (No. 2086034)
FTA: "The injury left Medina-Medina with a part of his brain missing and forced him to have to relearn basic functions like walking and talking"
-- and firing a gun apparently.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 3/28/2026 12:10:04 PM (No. 2086039)
This sounds like a HUGE load of B.S. Can he walk and talk? Then he’s not “missing part of his brain” - he’s just a dirtbag.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 3/28/2026 12:10:15 PM (No. 2086040)
Please extend my sympathies. Then hang him.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
rytwng 3/28/2026 12:10:27 PM (No. 2086041)
If he has the mind of a child let's abort him. Feet first in a wood chipper
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
singermom9 3/28/2026 12:11:41 PM (No. 2086042)
So we are supposed to keep him until e grows a new brain part? Just euthanize him. Send him to Canada. Tey are glad to help.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
learner 3/28/2026 12:23:03 PM (No. 2086050)
Tell him he is going to Disneyworld then strap him to a gurney and inject the death cocktail.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 3/28/2026 12:32:37 PM (No. 2086053)
The evolution of mental illness as a bar to criminal responsibility has progressed to the final goal of liberalism - all crime is the result of mental illness, no one will be held accountable, and civilization is at the mercy of psychopaths predators.. Therefore at this point Vigilante Justice is the only protection that civilization against the predators .
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Newtsche 3/28/2026 12:35:37 PM (No. 2086055)
So not only does he walk, for decades, we'll pay for him to live with assistance, medical and financial.
May Chief Broom give him the Cuckoo's Nest treatment.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Watlines1 3/28/2026 12:37:35 PM (No. 2086056)
I wonder if Trump is tired of being right ...again?!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 3/28/2026 12:54:28 PM (No. 2086063)
Even if true, and it's almost certainly a convenient lie.
But if true.....SO WHAT? Execution is the right solution.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jar 3/28/2026 1:06:45 PM (No. 2086071)
He has the mind of a child? Even an average child knows basic right from wrong. No excuses!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
PostAway 3/28/2026 1:24:03 PM (No. 2086074)
If the crime is heinous enough even genuine children can be tried as adults let alone an adult illegal alien found guilty of cold-blooded murder.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hazymac 3/28/2026 1:24:10 PM (No. 2086075)
Whack Medina-Medina. Is he inbred? Half a brain? May the firing squad fire into the other half of his brain.
The Democrats and RINOs responsible for the tsunami of illegal aliens in 2021-2025 deserve to be tarred and feathered. They knew exactly what they were doing, and they should pay the ultimate political price, gone from power, unmissed, and cordially hated by Americans. Every damn one of them should be a pariah, dodging flying rotten fruit when they venture outside. Their allies in the left wing press--the most corrupt institution in America--should be equally despised, also running the gantlet of smelly, flying stuff such as osage orange aka mock orange, nasty when rotten.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JSanders 3/28/2026 2:15:01 PM (No. 2086082)
In that case, strap his ass into an electric chair and tell him it's a new ride at Disney World.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/28/2026 2:25:44 PM (No. 2086084)
Supposedly diagosedd with tuberculosis
Said to be unable to read or write.
How did he get a gun?
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/28/2026 2:31:10 PM (No. 2086086)
Missing part of his brain, yet it worked well enough so he could find his way to the US. The guy's defense is a load of you know what.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/28/2026 2:36:44 PM (No. 2086087)
His mother identified him to LE from a photo.
He was already waiting on the pier or walkway when Sheridan and her friends walked up. She saw him and whispered to her friends about him. He saw this and jumped out and shot her.
His brain appears to be working.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/28/2026 3:51:52 PM (No. 2086093)
We will save money on electricity if Ol' Sparky only needs to fry half a brain.
So what excuse do the other ten million Troglodytes have for their actions?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/28/2026 4:48:23 PM (No. 2086100)
Remove the rest of it with a 9mm hollow point.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
joew9 3/28/2026 5:23:39 PM (No. 2086106)
We are so inept at handling our own mentally ill that we let them live on the streets in squalor and call them homeless. So we sure shouldn't be taking all the mentally ill of the world.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
PChristopher 3/28/2026 6:56:18 PM (No. 2086117)
Snuff him.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Felixed 3/28/2026 8:34:13 PM (No. 2086136)
Missing brain parts?
Should be easy to give him a trial judged by his peers.
...if jurors come from the Democrat voting bloc.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/28/2026 9:00:16 PM (No. 2086140)
If his medical and mental conditions are legitimate impairments once they become known they would have prevented him from qualifying for any sort of immigration visa to enter the USA as a legal immigrant, as he would have been found to be permanently excludible from the USA in accordance with the Federal immigration law.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
jar 3/28/2026 9:40:42 PM (No. 2086144)
Apparently, it's not part of his brain but rather part of his skull that was affected by a gunshot and removed. He can't read or write -- the implication being that part of his skull (not brain) that was removed is responsible. But more likely is a faulty education, he probably skipped school out of choice.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/28/2026 11:02:56 PM (No. 2086152)
The Brain Parts have nothing to do with Murder, Case Closed!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 3/28/2026 11:17:59 PM (No. 2086155)
I have NO sympathy, and I dislike his lying lawyer too.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
kono 3/29/2026 1:08:14 AM (No. 2086161)
Then get him a booster seat for Old Sparky.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/29/2026 6:15:36 AM (No. 2086172)
C'mon, his lawyer is an Effin' Democrap...When was the last time any Democrap told truth about anything? Truman left in 1950...That was it!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/29/2026 6:51:49 AM (No. 2086180)
Was he shot in the head while being robbed, or while robbing someone? The difference matters.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/29/2026 7:17:16 AM (No. 2086189)
How confusing. I read an article that he was wearing a mask when he shot her. He had enough intellect to do that so I am not buying what the defense is selling. . .
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
mifla 3/29/2026 7:35:56 AM (No. 2086200)
The prosecution should test this theory by examining his past actions. I think his lawyer is desperate.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/29/2026 10:34:03 AM (No. 2086284)
Okay, I get it now. He was playing cowboys and indians out there when the girls startled him.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
hisself 3/29/2026 11:08:37 AM (No. 2086305)
"his lawyer asked he remain so that immigration officials don't arrest and deport him."
OK, deport the lawyer instead!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 3/29/2026 12:07:46 PM (No. 2086334)
It's Cook County. No matter how lame brained his theory is, the defense will find an"expert' with a bs CV (for the right price) sufficient to raise a reasonable doubt in at least one juror's mind to prove to the jury that the defendant is not competent to stand trial on the grounds that he cannot understand the charges against him and is unable to fully assist counsel in his defense because of his mental condition. Just one juror out of twelve. Put the right garbage, poc expert, and get as many jurors who share the same attribute as the poc expert, and the guy has a shot at walking. He certainly has a better-than-even shot at pleading out. 2/degree, maybe vol/man, 20-40 with a chance at an earlier out or first parole in 5 (to 10)/, throw in uncontested deportation after any prison time. It's let's make a deal time - after the lawyer makes some money, of course. He clearly has a judge who will sign off on a deal for this poor unfortunate. He's a good boy, after this is the first time he has ever killed someone. I'll bet the little maggot was one of those Maduro dumped on us.
I don't get it, the article said the mom ID'd him. How did they know who the mother was? I liked/s the way the article pinned it on the BP.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
paral04 3/29/2026 1:29:42 PM (No. 2086356)
If they knew that guy was not viable person who could support himself or if there was not a sponsor, why is he here?
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Medina-Medina's attorney seems to be preparing to claim that this murderer, released into the United States by the Biden Administration and previously shielded from deportation by Illinois Democrats, lacks the mental capacity to comply with our laws. Note that Medina-Medina remains in jail at his attorney's request -- to shield him from deportation.