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GUN FOUND IN BACKPACK AT McDONALD'S

(Richmond, IN)--A gun was found in the backpack of someone at a Richmond McDonald’s late Thursday afternoon.  Officers were called to the McDonald’s at 18th and East Main and encountered 20-year-old Skyler Cottongim.  Cottongim had an active warrant for the theft of a motor vehicle.  He was charged Thursday with being a felon in possession of a handgun.  This marks criminal case #6 in Cottongim’s two years as an adult, including one just this past Monday.  Thursday was also a day full of domestic violence.  In different incidents across Wayne County, there were five different domestic battery arrests, including three different strangulations.