Three people were killed and three wounded in shootings across the city to start the weekend, according to Chicago Police. The city surpassed 1,000 gunshot victims on the year earlier in the week, and it is fast approaching the 200-homicide mark, according to Chicago Sun-Times data.
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The latest fatal shooting happened just after 11 p.m. Friday in the Hermosa neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Adrian John Nieves, 31, was sitting in the back seat of a van parked in the 4300 block of West Altgeld when a gray vehicle pulled up and someone inside it shot him in the head.
He was taken to Community First Medical Center, where he died, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. His home …