IN agonising pain from a bullet that severely damaged his genitals, a man stumbled nearly a kilometre through a southern Sydney suburb before he was rushed to hospital yesterday.

The 24-year-old victim later declined to co-operate with police despite sustaining injuries to the wrist and groin in Durham St, Carlton, around 4am yesterday.

media_camera A man was shot in the groin and wrist in Carlton this morning. Picture: Ross Schultz

Witness Abdul Yaghi heard the gunshots and said he saw a car speed off when he went to the injured man’s aid.

“I saw the guys that shot him taking off. They were in a little black Mazda, two or three of them,” he said. “I heard a big bang and came outside and saw the bloke laying on the floor there. I came out to help him, he’d been shot in the leg and the hand.”

media_camera A man was shot in the groin and wrist in Carlton this morning. Picture: Bill Hearne

Despite efforts by Mr Yaghi to get the man to wait for an ambulance he walked around the block to Fleet St before being taken to hospital in a critical condition.

A trail of blood was left in his wake and a second crime scene was formed around bloodied clothing where he was treated by paramedics.

“He was walking off and I said ‘take it easy and I’ll call the ambulance for you’,” Mr Yaghi said. “He was in shock and kept walking, stumbling. There was blood everywhere.

“I sat him down and called the ambulance. It was pretty full on, I’ve never seen something like that before. It didn’t look good.”

The man, who police said was well known to them, was in a stable condition at St George Hospital yesterday.

media_camera A man was shot in the groin and wrist in Carlton this morning. Picture: Bill Hearne

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