Father calls daughter's death 'preventable failure' as accused killer pleads not guilty

In a Chicago courtroom, a young woman's absence pressed against the walls of legal procedure as Jose Medina-Medina, 25, entered a not guilty plea in the shooting death of Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old Loyola University student killed at a Rogers Park pier in March. The case has drawn national attention not only for its human tragedy but for what it reveals about the gaps between policy and enforcement — the warrants unserved, the hearings missed, the systems that touched this man and released him back into the ordinary world. Her father's words cut through the procedural language: this was n