Morning testimony featured FWPD officers, detectives and two young women, best friends, who were hanging around with the wrong crowd in September 2023. Their testimony was pivotal. S.C. was the girl with the car, a black Chevy Cruze. That night, she lent it to Terrance Sanders Jr. because he kept asking her for it, she said.

It had to be more than a beef to set up a potential shoot-em-up at Wendy’s. Those grinding there Aug. 17 around 7:45 p.m. must be asking themselves why they work at a minimum wage job when five armed and masked young men can freely enter and start wreaking havoc.