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The recent murder of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman may have slipped through the cracks in the past week, and some say that is clearly the fault of the media for choosing to ignore the story. A graduate of Yorktown High School in Westchester County, Gorman was a freshman at Loyola University in Chicago; she was killed on March 19th while she was walking on a beach late that night with friends. Her accused murderer is a Venezuelan migrant who entered the United States illegally in 2023. He is accused of stalking Gorman, shooting her in the back, and leaving her to die.
In the aftermath of the shooting, no politician in Illinois came forward to condemn the migrant for his actions or even contact Gorman’s family; rather, one Chicago alderwoman casually dismissed the incident, saying that Gorman was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino appeared on 710 WOR’s Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the Morning program to make sure that people don’t soon forget the name of a Westchester girl whose life and dreams were senselessly cut short.
Astorino told Curtis and Larry the media in New York in particular should not be ignoring Gorman’s murder because it doesn’t fit the narrative they’d rather create: “The local stations would, and the media would [cover the story], if they were actually doing their job and didn’t have a 97% population of Democrats in their own newsrooms, and that’s the slant. They don’t see this as anything other than, okay, it was over there. It’s such a tragedy, but on to the next thing; what could we go after Donald Trump on? The Gorman family in Yorktown should never, ever, ever- no family should- have to go through this, because it was so preventable.”
Astorino then expanded on the conditions that led to Gorman’s murder and why they are so infuriating: “It’s an open border, it’s the Biden administration that let this thug, this disgusting person stay in this country, and also the sanctuary laws of Chicago, and, by the way, he’s got tuberculosis… But all of this was totally preventable, and it’s so saddening and it’s maddening that this is allowed to happen in this country. And it ain’t the first time, obviously, and it won’t be the last.”
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