Inset photos left to right from top: Antoine Suggs (KARE) and Darren Lee McWright, aka Darren Osborne (The Associated Press). Bottom row, from left: Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley (KARE), Loyace Foreman III (KARE), Matthew Pettus (Johnson-Peterson Funeral Home) and Jasmine Sturm (KARE).
A man who helped his son hide the bodies of four murder victims in a Wisconsin cornfield after the younger man “snapped” has learned his fate.
Darren Osborne, 59, was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison, online court records show. He was found guilty in October of four counts of hiding a corpse involving the deaths of Jasmine Sturm, 30; her brother, Matthew Pettus, 26; her boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35; and her friend, Nitosha Flug-Presley, 30.
His son, Antoine Suggs, 41, shot and killed the victims after a night of drinking in St. Paul, Minnesota, in September 2021. Citing surveillance footage and phone data, investigators indicate that Suggs killed the victims around Seventh Street in St. Paul between 3:30 a.m. and 3:48 a.m. on Sept. 12.
Video showed Flug-Presley slumped over in the front passenger seat, authorities said.
Suggs reached out to his father after the shooting for help with hiding the bodies. He “told his father that he snapped and shot a couple of people,” says a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime.
“Suggs told his father the shooting happened in the vehicle on Seventh Street,” said the Ramsey County criminal complaint. “Suggs’ father gave his son a ride to Minnesota from Wisconsin after they left the Mercedes-Benz in a cornfield. Suggs’ father denied knowing the bodies of the people his son shot were in the vehicle they abandoned. He dropped Suggs off in Minneapolis.”
Suggs surrendered to police in Arizona, where he had been living. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to 103 years in prison in 2023.
Osborne had been sentenced to nearly five years in prison in 2022 for helping his son and will serve the Minnesota sentence and the Wisconsin sentence concurrently, The Associated Press reported.
Alberto Luperon contributed to this report.
