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Woman shot in West Garfield Park

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A woman was shot early Saturday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.

Officers responding to a call of person shot about 1:45 a.m. in the 4100 block of West Van Buren fond the 25-year-old woman outside with a gunshot wound to the arm, police said.

Her condition was stabilized at the scene, but the woman was uncooperative with investigators and refused to go to the hospital, police said.

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