BY MICHAEL LANSU
Homicide Watch Chicago Editor
Two men were shot to death in Chicago last week in the final killing of 2014 and the first slaying in the new year.
The most recent killing happened when 39-year-old Randy James was shot in the 5000 block of West Superior Street about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.
James, of the 4600 block of West Adams Street, died later that morning at John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The slaying was the first in Chicago in 2015.
The killing started when 33-year-old Reginald Jones was shot at a tire shop in the 8000 block of South Stony Island Avenue about 2:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, authorities said.
Jones, of the 8800 block of South Cornell Avenue, died less than an hour later at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Jones had been self-employed as a tow truck driver for around eight years and worked all the hours he could, even going out late to give a a stranded motorist a tow on Christmas Day, his sister Brandy Jones said.
Nobody has been charged for either murder.