18-year old shot in leg Sunday

A Hopkinsville man says he was shot in the leg Sunday afternoon.

Eighteen-year-old Robert Torian arrived at the Jennie Stuart Medical Center Emergency Room Sunday with a gunshot wound to the leg and said it happened around 5 p.m. in the area of West First Street and North Fowler Avenue.

The Hopkinsville Police Department is investigating the incident as first-degree assault.