College student shot and killed while walking with friends near campus
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Police said in an update that a person of interest was being questioned in the fatal shooting.
A Chicago college student was walking with friends near campus when an unknown suspect walked up to them and fatally shot her, authorities said.
Police said they responded to a report of someone shot at about 1:30 a.m. on March 19. The 18-year-old victim was walking outside near Tobey Prinz Beach Park with a group of friends when an "unknown male offender" approached them. He "displayed a firearm" and shot in the direction of the group, the Chicago Police Department said in a statement. The victim was shot in the head and pronounced dead on the scene. Nobody else was injured, police said.
Detectives are "currently questioning a person of interest," the Chicago Police Department told USA TODAY in an update the morning of March 21.
The victim was identified as Sheridan Gorman, 18, by her hometown in Yorktown, New York. She was a student at Loyola University Chicago.
She was "loved by all who knew her," Yorktown Central School District Superintendent Dr. Ron Hattar said in a letter to district parents, reported the Rockland/Westchester Journal News, part of the USA TODAY Network.
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