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Wesley D. Gennings was 16 when he was found fatally shot in his vehicle in a Taco Bell parking lot on Southwest Campus Drive in Federal Way, Washington, on the evening of February 13, 2016. A sophomore at Decatur High School and a member of the football team, he was described as kind and his mother’s only child.Wesley had arranged to meet two other teenagers that night purportedly for a marijuana sale. Investigators say the meeting was a premeditated plan to rob him.

The two who fled the vehicle after the shooting were identified as 16-year-old Michael Rogers and 14-year-old Diante Pellum. Police allege Pellum, seated behind Wesley, shot him in the back of the head; the suspects then took his wallet, iPhone, and a chain.The community held a vigil at Decatur High School. Michael Rogers was arrested on February 18 on a school campus with a handgun; Diante Pellum turned himself in on February 21. Both were charged with first-degree murder.

What details can anyone add about Wesley’s life or that night?