21-05-2025
KCPD looking for fugitive wanted for 2024 double homicide
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department is attempting to locate a dangerous fugitive wanted for a December 2024 .
The suspect has been identified as MR Terrell Simpson, who has been with two counts of accessory to first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action.
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KCPD is asking anyone with information to contact the Greater KC Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-8477. The award is up to $25,000 for any information that leads to an arrest in this case and you can remain 100% anonymous.
Initial reports of the deadly incident said that on Dec. 9, 2024, just before 3:30 p.m., officers with the Kansas City Police Department were called to an apartment complex in the area of Blue Hills Road and Citadel Drive on reports of gunshot sounds.
Upon arrival, witnesses pointed officers to a car in the parking lot where 19-year-old Deontae D. Marchbanks and 17-year-old Cierra Pennington were found.
According to court documents, Marchbanks was pronounced dead at the scene and Pennington later died after she was taken to a hospital.
According to court records, video surveillance shows a Nissan pulling into the apartment complex parking lot and parking in front of the building. Simpson and another suspect, identified as Linda Ater, exited from the backseats of the vehicle, both holding firearms. Simpson then enters the building.
After Simpson comes back out of the building, court documents say Ater fires in the direction of the victim in the driver's seat. As she is firing, her firearm malfunctions, and she retreats into a Chevrolet Malibu parked next to the Nissan. Simpson then begins firing into the Nissan.
The passenger side victim is seen on camera footage jumping out of the car but slips and falls to the ground. Simpson runs around the vehicle and fires his weapon directly at the victim.
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Simpson then gets into the Malibu but returns to retrieve a firearm from the Nissan. He gets back into the Malibu and leaves the scene.
Ater was sentenced last month in Jackson County court to 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of second-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.
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