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Police identify leprechaun robbers
The Gallatin Police Department has identified the two suspects who died following the robbery of First Sate Bank Wednesday afternoon.
Police said David Christopher Cotton (pictured at top), 20, of 6304 Wildwood Valley Road in Brentwood, entered the bank wearing a leprechaun outfit, while his getaway driver, 20-year-old Jonathan Ryan Skinner, waited on a side street.
FBI Bank Robbery Task Force information has linked the Wednesday robbery to the Dec. 22, 2009, robbery of a SunTrust Bank at 4904 Old Hickory Blvd. in which the robber wore a Santa Claus suit.
The initial investigation, pending an autopsy, indicates that Cotton may have taken his own life as police closed in on him and returned fire.
Skinner was a student at Western Kentucky University, according to police.
The joint investigation continues between the Sumner County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI task force and Gallatin police.
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I hope these two kids have their parents looking at this and it makes them very proud.
So sad. My heart goes out to the families. Of course, the young men were wrong, wrong, wrong, but their families loved them deeply and certainly did not condone their actions. Sarah R
most families do not condone the actions of their children who commit felonies, even the "minorities" and "illegals."
Cotton lived at real estate Google reports as $444,900, 5 bed, 4 bath‎. Why would a child living in a half million dollar home need to steal?
drusie, they do it for the Thrill of it. They do it because they think they are smarter than anyone else. Sort of an arrogance and rebellion. The st. patty elf had already pulled off the Santa robbery. He was a real clyde without a bonnie.
I doubt if the kid who "went along" for the ride ever saw what was coming. He probably thought it was a fun thing to do. How naive!
I do feel sorry for their kin folk. I doubt they had a clue either!
leprechaun robbers - had they lived they would have made some nice prison boygirl friends
sidneyames, talk about arrogance...you think you know so much but in reality you have no say in any detail to these people.
these people that you have never met or probably have never seen, these people that you do not know one thing about. stop making remarks and stupid little metaphors towards death.
how naive!
don't feel sorry for the kin folk. feel sorry for yourself.
whatever opinion you have on someone you have not spent time with's character is unneeded and false. whatever you have to say, keep it to yourself. it is pointless. i am saying all these things in order for whoever wants to not see happenings like this in such a narrow perspective.
oh and to druise, your question is like asking why do any of you people comment on things you do not know about?
im sick of it, that is all.