Global Courant 2023-05-16 23:00:28
A man convicted of killing four passengers in his Mercedes-Benz SUV in Minnesota and dumping the bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield has been sentenced to 103 years in prison.
The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that Judge JaPaul Harris on Monday sentenced 39-year-old Antoine Suggs of Scottsdale, Arizona, to consecutive sentences for the murder of Jasmine Sturm, 30; her brother, Matthew Pettus, 26; her boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35; and her boyfriend, Nitosha Flug-Presley, 30. Sturm, Pettus, and Foreman were from St. Paul, Minnesota. Flug-Presley was from Stillwater, Minnesota.
Suggs was convicted of four counts of second-degree manslaughter in April 2021. He testified that he shot the four in self-defense because he believed they were going to rob him.
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Antoine Suggs, convicted of killing four passengers in his Mercedes Benz SUV in Minnesota and dumping the bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield, was sentenced to 103 years in prison on May 15, 2023. (Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office via AP, file)
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Prosecutors said his motive was unclear, but that Suggs planned to kill the victims after a night of drinking in St. Paul.
Suggs’ father, Darren McWright, who also goes by the last name Osborne, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to helping his son hide the victims’ bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield about 65 miles away. east of St. Paul.
Suggs told the judge on Monday that he was wrongly convicted. Harris replied that Suggs showed no remorse or sympathy and “blamed others”.