36-year-old Ronald Terrel James dies minutes after being shot in head in West Town

Ronald Terrel James was fatally shot in the head Sunday afternoon in the West Town neighborhood on the Near West Side.

The 36-year-old was sitting in a vehicle at 4:26 p.m. in the 100 block of North Hermitage when someone walked up and shot him in the head,

according to Chicago Police.

James, a Humboldt Park neighborhood resident, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 4:47 p.m., according to the COok County medical examiner’s office.

Area Central detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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