Police: man shoots own hand in Calumet Heights

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A 59-year-old man shot himself in the hand Thursday morning in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side.

About 5:30 a.m., the man wounded himself in the 9200 block of South Kingston Avenue, Chicago police said.

He showed up at Trinity Hospital where his condition was stabilized, police said.

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