On the afternoon of December 9, 2024, a shooting in the parking lot of the Charter Landing apartments on Blue Hills Road in Kansas City left two teenagers dead. Nineteen-year-old Deontae Marchbanks was sitting in the driver’s seat of a Nissan Sentra with 17-year-old Cierra Pennington when gunfire erupted around 3:30 p.m. Officers found both teenagers unresponsive in the car; Marchbanks was pronounced dead at the scene and Pennington was taken to a hospital.

Investigators say surveillance video shows 18-year-old Linda S. Ater arriving in the same Nissan, talking briefly with occupants of a Chevrolet Malibu, then returning to the Sentra and attempting to fire a handgun that allegedly malfunctioned. A person identified as Terrell Simpson then exited the Malibu and fired into the Sentra. Police recovered more than two dozen shell casings at the scene. Ater was arrested on January 3, 2025, and charged in connection with the shootings; Simpson was also charged.

Does anyone have information about the movements of the Malibu or its occupants in the Citadel neighborhood that afternoon?