27-year-old man fatally shot in Little Village

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A 27-year-old man was killed in a shooting Friday in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side, police said.

About 7:10 p.m., Juan Vargas was in the 4000 block of West 25th Place when someone came up to him and began shooting, Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Vargas suffered a gunshot wound to his head and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 7:53 p.m., authorities said. He lived in the West Elsdon neighborhood.

Area Central detectives were investigating the killing.

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