Loyola student paper apologizes for calling Gorman’s killer ‘illegal immigrant’

Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman was murdered last week by an illegal immigrant. That’s an uncontroversial statement on a controversial killing — or is it? The Loyola Phoenix felt the need to apologize for referring to the alleged killer as an “illegal immigrant” in their coverage.

The school paper explained the change by declaring that “no human’s existence is illegal, and we quickly changed our wording to reflect that. We acknowledge the harm such language can cause.”