Grieving parents of slain student Sheridan Gorman speak out: 'We can't let this happen to another family'

The grieving mother of slain Loyola student Sheridan Gorman slammed "galling" claims from a Chicago official that her daughter was in the "wrong place at the wrong time" when authorities say she was shot and killed by an illegal migrant as the family spoke out in an emotional interview Thursday on "The Story."

"Someone said, 'wrong place, wrong time,' the alderwoman, and actually, suggested that she might have startled this man, and that just, it flays me." Jess Gorman, Sheridan's mother, told anchor Martha MacCallum. "It just lays my heart wide open. My daughter was not in the wrong place at the wrong time-this man was."

"She was supposed to be my maid of honor, one day, right beside me. I'm supposed to be the aunt of her children," said Madelon Gorman, Sheridan's sister. "It's something you never, ever expect to happen to you, to happen to your sibling, your best friend, your daughter."

"ICE could have saved our daughter twice," Jess Gorman said. "To me, things like that show that they value these undocumented migrants more than they value our American citizens, our American children."

The Gormans repeated that they don't consider themselves a partisan family, with Jess Gorman noting she's never "fought with people over politics."

But Sheridan's father, Tom Gorman, said he's now left with the question of whether local policies led to his child's death. "I have to live every day with a choice in my head: Was my daughter an unintended consequence of good policy or the consequence of bad policy? And I know the answer for me," he said.

Pritzker said, "There have been real failures. Those failures, of course, extend beyond the borders of Illinois. That's their national failures, a failure to have comprehensive immigration reform, a failure of the president to follow his own edict to go after the worst of the worst."