MENOMONIE, Wis. — A man from Minnesota has been sentenced to 16 years in jail for helping his son hide four bodies in a cornfield in Wisconsin, according to online court records.
Dunn County Circuit Judge James Peterson sentenced 59-year-old Darren Osborne from St. Paul on Thursday. In October, a jury found him guilty of four charges of hiding a body. Peterson sentenced him to four years in jail for each victim.
Prosecutors say that Osborne’s son, Antoine Suggs, from Scottsdale, Arizona, shot four people after a night of drinking in St. Paul in September 2021. The people who died were 30-year-old Jasmine Sturm, her brother 26-year-old Matthew Pettus, her boyfriend 35-year-old Loyace Foreman III, and her friend 30-year-old Nitosha Flug-Presley.
Suggs told his dad that he “snapped” and shot a few people. This is from a legal document that charges him with four counts of second-degree murder. Osborne went after Suggs to a cornfield in Dunn County, which is about 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of St. Paul. They left the bodies in Suggs’ Mercedes Benz SUV, abandoned the vehicle in the fields and left in Osborne’s vehicle. The farmer who owned the fields found the bodies.
Suggs said he shot the four people in self-defense because he thought they were trying to rob him. However, prosecutors argued that his real purpose wasn’t clear and he intended to kill them. He was found guilty and given a 103-year prison term in 2023.
In 2022, a judge in Minnesota sentenced Osborne to nearly five years in jail for assisting his son. He will serve the rest of his time for both the Minnesota and Wisconsin sentences at the same time.
Court records show that three lawyers who helped Osborne in his Wisconsin case have all stepped down, and Osborne ended up representing himself during sentence.
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