We have learned more about the Venezuelan migrant being questioned by Chicago police in connection with the murder of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman, who was shot in an apparently random and unprovoked attack on the pier at Loyola Beach this week.
CWB Chicago reported Saturday evening that Chicago police detained a 25-year-old man around 9 p.m. Friday while executing a search warrant at an apartment building in the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road, less than two blocks from the pier in Rogers Park. The search turned up a firearm that was sent to a ballistics laboratory to determine whether it fired the bullet that struck Gorman, who was killed by a single shot to the torso, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Sources familiar with the investigation said Saturday they had found no indication of any provocation or altercation leading up to the shooting. When Gorman and her friends crossed paths with the gunman near the pier’s light beacon at 1:11 a.m. Thursday, he was wearing a ski mask or other face covering. He fired once, striking Gorman in the torso, though CPD initially reported she had been shot in the head. Detectives used footage from multiple cameras to track the suspect to the apartment building, where additional footage captured him without the face covering, and someone associated with the building recognized him, sources said…