Man shot in Avalon Park

A man was shot in the South Side Avalon Park neighborhood Sunday afternoon.

The 20-year-old man was shot in the 8500 block of South Stony Island, police said.

He took himself to South Shore Hospital with a gunshot wound to the thumb, police said. Additional details weren’t known.

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