Police: Man Shot In Buttocks Waited 2 Hours To Report His Injury
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Los Angeles police are trying to determine why a man who was shot in the buttocks waited more than two hours to report he had been wounded.
Officers were called out around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on a report of shots fired to the area of Avalon Boulevard and East Colden Avenue in South LA, but found no victims or suspects, Los Angeles police Lt. A. Neal said.
At about 10 p.m., a man called authorities to say that he had been shot in the buttocks hours earlier, in the same area where the shots had been reported, Neal said.
The man, whose injury was not life-threatening, was taken by ambulance to a hospital.
"The circumstances are sketchy about what took place," Neal said. "We are trying to figure why he waited to report being shot."
An investigation in the shooting is under way, he said.
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