Ronald Terrel James, a 36-year-old African American man, was killed on November 5, 2017, in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood on the Near West Side. He was sitting in a vehicle on the 100 block of North Hermitage near the United Center when an unknown assailant approached and shot him in the head. No arrests have been made and no suspects have been publicly identified.

Investigators recovered a mask and Ronald’s blood-stained T-shirt and those items were sent to the Illinois State Police crime lab for DNA analysis. Processing has been delayed by a large backlog at the lab; the case was among thousands awaiting testing. His mother, Reginice McBride, has publicly pressed for faster DNA processing and for legislative action to address understaffing and demand at the state’s forensic labs. Ronald left five children.

Does anyone who was in the West Town or United Center area on November 5, 2017, remember seeing a vehicle or persons matching this description?