MASON CITY, Iowa —

A Mason City man is facing a firearm charge after a disturbance that left another man with a gunshot wound.

According to Mason City police, officers were responding to a disturbance on 29th Street Southwest shortly before 4 a.m. on Monday. On the way there, officers found a person involved in the disturbance, identified as 35-year-old Michael Orozco, driving himself to a nearby hospital with a gunshot wound.

At the residence, police found evidence of a shooting and recovered a firearm from inside the home.

Police say Orozco was admitted to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, but his injury is not life-threatening.

Cody Dakin, 30, has been charged with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and is being held in the Cerro Gordo County Jail

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