An evening in November turned deadly in the parking lot of a Platte City Wendy’s. On November 15, 2023, 18-year-old Kareem Z. Hassan and his brother were found with gunshot wounds around 6:30 p.m. in the restaurant lot at 1400 Platte Falls Road; Hassan had been shot in the head and his brother in the neck. The brother survived in critical condition.

Investigators determined the meeting had been prearranged as a marijuana transaction. Surveillance reportedly showed the brothers in a silver Ford Mustang meet a silver SUV in the parking lot; the SUV then sped away and the brothers were left on the ground. A Snapchat conversation on one victim’s phone, plus cellphone location records, led police to identify 22-year-old Terrion M. Gully-Henry of Leavenworth as a suspect.

Gully-Henry was arrested and initially charged with attempting to deliver a controlled substance; the case was later upgraded to include second-degree murder and armed criminal action. He was held without bond and entered not guilty pleas at arraignment; a request for bond reduction was denied. Anyone who witnessed the shooting or saw the vehicles that evening is asked to come forward with information.