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Man Pleads Guilty to Fatal Gas Station Stabbing

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): A Fort Wayne man has plead guilty to stabbing a man to death at a gas station last May.

56-year-old David Cocklin admitted to voluntary manslaughter after he stabbed 30-year-old Raynell White outside the Clark station at Wayne Trace and Drexel Avenue on May 1st.

According to our partners in news at 21Alive, the two were in an argument and Cocklin pulled out a knife. White was sent to the hospital, where he later died.

Cocklin will be sent sentenced next month.

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