Crime

Wounded man walks to hospital after Little Village shooting

By Sun-Times Wire

A 22-year-old man with a minor gunshot wound walked in to Rush University Medical Center Saturday morning, according to the police.

They said he told them he’d been shot in a leg around 11:25 p.m. Friday in the 2600 block of South Hamlin in Little Village.

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