Early Thursday, 18-year-old Loyola College Chicago scholar Sheridan Gorman was murdered by a gunman on a Lake Michigan pier whereas strolling with associates. Extra disturbing particulars arose Saturday evening when Fox’s Matt Finn revealed the suspect was 25-year-old unlawful alien from Venezuela who reportedly arrived in the course of the Biden border disaster. Unsurprisingly, it took days for the most important broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC to wish to point out that on their flagship morning or night newscasts.
This heinous killing — which Finn’s colleague Invoice Melugin dubbed “Laken Riley 2.0” — was beforehand lined by ABC and NBC, but it surely wasn’t till Monday evening that any of them talked about the essential particulars in regards to the suspect.
Monday’s CBS Night Information and NBC Nightly Information barely lined it with information briefs tallying 32 and 23 seconds, respectively:
‘CBS Night Information’ and ‘NBC Nightly Information’ barely lined it — every in a scant information temporary — for a mixed 55 seconds pic.twitter.com/Vkclx9KyYp
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026
In CBS’s case, this marked the primary time the homicide was even talked about. Anchor Tony Dokoupil famous the suspect is “a Venezuelan nationwide within the nation illegally with a previous warrant for his arrest tied to shoplifting expenses” and that Gorman’s household had launched an announcement blasting the lax “insurance policies and failures that allowed this particular person to stay ready to commit this crime.”
NBC Nightly Information anchor Tom Llamas known as the event “a giant replace” and likewise relayed the identical portion of the Gorman household assertion denouncing the truth that Medina was even allowed to be out on the streets. If it’s such a “large” deal, why did you bury it, NBC?
Shamefully, ABC’s World Information Tonight was the one one to provide a full report back to this newest instance of unlawful immigrant crime following the Biden border disaster:
In the meantime, ABC’s ‘World Information Tonight’ had a full story from @RhiannonAlly on the Loyola scholar’s homicide, spanning 79 seconds (together with the truth that his first court docket look has been delayed as a result of he has tuberculosis) pic.twitter.com/Ux5602c02A
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026
Right here was the complete phase because it aired from anchor David Muir and correspondent Rhiannon Ally. Crucially, ABC was the one community to say the truth that the unlawful alien’s first court docket look has been placed on indefinite maintain as a result of he was identified with tuberculosis (actually) (click on “broaden”):
MUIR: Again right here within the U.S. tonight to the scholar from Loyola College Chicago who was shot and killed whereas strolling with a gaggle of her associates. A suspect tonight now charged and Homeland Safety now saying he’s within the nation illegally. Here is Rhiannon Ally.
ALLY: It was a surprising crime, 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman, a freshman at Loyola College Chicago, was shot to loss of life whereas strolling with associates at a lakeside park. Tonight, an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela has been charged together with her homicide.
9/11 DISPATCHER: Over on the seashore, on Pratt, 1045 West Pratt, we bought an individual shot, and it’s a Loyola scholar.
ALLY: Official say at 1 a.m. Thursday morning, the group walked onto seem when a masked suspect emerged, wearing black. Because the group fled, Gorman was shot within the again.
LESLIE ZAMARRIPA: We shouldn’t be fearful about strolling to the seashore and never count on to simply get killed like that.
ALLY: DHS says 25-year-old Jose Medina entered the nation illegally in 2023. Gorman’s household from Westchester, New York, saying in an announcement, “this was a violent and preventable act. We’re gravely disillusioned by the insurance policies and failures that allowed this particular person to stay ready to commit this crime.” David tonight, the suspect has been hospitalized with tuberculosis, and his first court docket look has been postponed, David.
MUIR: Rhiannon Ally with us tonight. Rhiannon, thanks.
Rewinding again to the weekend, Sunday’s NBC Nightly Informationhad the gall to cowl it for 98 seconds, however hid from viewers the essential particulars in regards to the suspect.
Sunday anchor Hallie Jackson twice teased the story earlier than telling viewers of “a possible break within the investigation into the loss of life of a Chicago school scholar shot and killed whereas out with associates.”
Correspondent Valerie Castro couldn’t have been extra imprecise: “Tonight in Chicago, police revealing an individual of curiosity is now being questioned in reference to the loss of life of Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola College freshman.”
WATCH: Sunday’s ‘NBC Nightly Information’ had virtually 90 seconds on final week’s homicide of a Loyola of Chicago scholar and that “an individual of curiosity” has been detained, IGNORING any point out of the truth that the suspect is an unlawful alien from Venezuela pic.twitter.com/iqddWdSYVm
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026
Castro went on:
The loss of life a shock to the shut knit campus neighborhood in denial…“She was doing one thing completely regular,” her household writing, “strolling with associates near dwelling in an space the place she had each purpose to really feel protected,” including, “our daughter’s life was not expendable. She ought to nonetheless be right here.” Associates inserting flowers within the space the place she died to commemorate her life…Tonight, a neighborhood left shattered and a household asking why.
NBC was so satisfied this was the way in which to go that they re-aired Castro’s piece on Monday’s in a single day present, Early Right now.
Earlier than the main points in regards to the suspect had come to mild, Friday’s NBC Nightly Information spent 97 seconds on the mindless killing and the heartbroken Loyola scholar physique, additional rendering Sunday’s replace much more galling.
Simply over an hour previous to this bombshell about this unlawful immigrant (who was additionally on the streets regardless of going through shoplifting expenses), ABC’s World Information Tonight had a 19-second temporary on Saturday from Whit Johnson:
Chicago police say they’re questioning an individual of curiosity within the lethal taking pictures of a faculty scholar. 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was killed early Thursday morning. She had been strolling with associates on a lakefront pier not removed from Loyola College the place she was a freshman. Police say they don’t consider she was the meant goal.
All instructed, the Sunday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America and World Information Tonight, the CBS Night Information with Jericka Duncan, and NBC’s Sunday Today couldn’t be bothered to cowl the homicide, not to mention achieve this precisely. Such was the case on Monday throughout all three community reveals (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and NBC’s Right now).
However what made their silence much more embarrassing was the truth that, on Monday, the little-watched, in a single day reveals of Good Morning America First Look and CBS Information Mornings have been in a position to each cowl Gorman’s loss of life and highlight the truth of migrant crime.
Whereas the lead ABC and CBS morning and night reveals selected to disregard by means of Monday morning the homicide of Sheridan Gorman by an unlawful alien, their little-watched, in a single day reveals ‘Good Morning America First Look’ and ‘CBS Information Mornings’ instructed those that did watch them the reality pic.twitter.com/QzjLhTUVe7
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026
GMA First Look had almost two minutes, beginning with co-host Sophie Flay slicing proper to the chase: “We’re again with an arrest within the surprising homicide of a faculty scholar in Chicago. Federal officers say the suspect entered the U.S. illegally.”
In a single day ABC correspondent Alison Kosik didn’t waste anybody’s time both:
In a single day, authorities asserting an arrest within the homicide of Loyola College scholar Sheridan Gorman. Homeland Safety officers say the alleged shooter is 25-year-old Jose Medina, who they are saying illegally entered the U.S. from Venezuela. They are saying he was launched after being apprehended by Border Patrol again in 2023, and was launched once more after a shoplifting arrest in Chicago.
Kosik included parts of the Gorman household assertion none have lined earlier than or since:
Her household saying, “we is not going to enable this to be dismissed as ‘flawed place, flawed time.’ This was not random misfortune. This was a violent and preventable act,” including, “we’re gravely disillusioned by the insurance policies and failures that allowed this particular person to stay ready to commit this crime.” After a vigil on campus, college students are demanding extra security measures.
CBS Information Mornings had a 27-second temporary from host Michael George about “expenses…filed towards a Venezuelan migrant within the taking pictures loss of life of a Loyola College freshman” and that the overseas nationwide “has been residing within the U.S. illegally.”
To see the related transcripts, click on right here (for March 20’s NBC Nightly Information), right here (for March 21’s World Information Tonight), right here (for March 22’s NBC Nightly Information), right here (for March 23’s ABC’s Good Morning America First Look), right here (for March 23’s CBS Information Mornings), right here (for March 23’s World Information Tonight), right here (for March 23’s CBS Night Information), and right here (for March 23’s NBC Nightly Information).
Editor’s Observe: This publish has been up to date to mirror the protection on the Monday evening community newscasts.
