India, March 26 -- The family of 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman has criticised political leaders in Chicago and Illinois, rejecting descriptions of her killing as a "senseless tragedy" and calling for accountability over what they believe were preventable failures.

According to Fox News, Gorman, a freshman at Loyola University Chicago, was shot dead in the early hours of March 19 while she was with friends near a pier in the city's Rogers Park neighbourhood. Police allege that Jose Medina-Medina, a 25-year-old Venezuelan national, fired a single shot that killed her.

In a detailed statement, Gorman's family pushed back against comments made by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, both of whom had described the k...