Sister of Victim Killed by Illegal Immigrant Blasts Anti-ICE Protesters
The sister of a college freshman allegedly killed by an illegal immigrant condemned anti-ICE protesters who demonstrated in their Westchester hometown, calling it a painful reopening of an unhealed wound.
Madelon Gorman, whose 18-year-old sister Sheridan Gorman was killed in Chicago earlier this year, took to Facebook to express her anguish after Saturday’s protest in Yorktown, as New York Post reports.
Sheridan, a freshman at Loyola University, died after being shot on March 19 while walking near her campus. A 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant, Jose Medina, has been charged with her murder.
In her Facebook post, Madelon explained that her sister had left Yorktown to pursue higher education in Chicago, where she was killed by an illegal immigrant with a criminal record. The loss devastated her family entirely.
Seeing an anti-ICE protest in the very community that raised both sisters caused profound pain, Madelon wrote. The demonstration felt like a wound being torn open again, reducing the tragedy that claimed her sister’s life to a political talking point rather than recognizing it as the devastating human loss it represents.
The timing and location of the protest struck Madelon as particularly cruel. While activists have countless venues available to express their views, they chose to gather in the hometown Sheridan loved, the town that raised her, and the community that mourned her passing.
The demonstration was reportedly organized by Indivisible Yorktown and Northern Westchester Indivisible, targeting both ICE operations and U.S. Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican congressman.
State Assemblyman Matt Slater, a Republican representing Yorktown, also condemned the protest sharply. He characterized the anti-ICE demonstration by members of the extreme left as a shocking display of disrespect toward a community and family still grieving.
Slater noted that Sheridan loved Yorktown and everything it represented, but was taken from the community by an illegal immigrant and the same broken immigration system that Governor Kathy Hochul recently expanded across New York State through new sanctuary laws.
The assemblyman emphasized that no family should endure the pain the Gormans have suffered. Saturday’s protest ignored the ongoing memorial to Sheridan, whose memory is honored by green lights that continue to shine in her name throughout the community.
With information from New York Post
