Antoine Suggs was given a 103-year prison term for killing four people in his Mercedes Benz SUV in Minnesota and dumping their bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield.
Antoine Suggs received his sentence in Ramsey County Court on Monday, being found guilty on four charges of murder. Initially, state sentencing recommendations stated that the 40-year-old suspect could spend 160 years in prison if found guilty.
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Judge JaPaul J. Harris listened as nine different individuals approached a platform and expressed their profound sense of loss before imposing a total sentence of 1,244 months.
The victims were Jasmine Sturm, 30, her friend Nitosha Flug-Presley, 30, her brother Matthew Pettus, 26, and her boyfriend Loyace Foreman III, 35. Sturm, Pettus, and Foreman were natives of St. Paul, Minnesota. Flug-Presley was from Stillwater, Minnesota.
Suggs was convicted in April on four counts of second-degree murder related to the killings in September 2021. According to his testimony, he shot the four because he believed they were coming to rob him and acted in self-defense. Suggs planned to kill the victims after a night of drinking in St. Paul, according to the prosecution, who stated his motivation was still unclear.
When Suggs’ father, Darren McWright, who also goes by the last name Osborne, admitted to aiding his son in concealing the victims’ bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield some 65 miles east of St. Paul, he was given a five-year jail sentence.
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Suggs asserted that he was not guilty before the judge on Monday. Reportedly, Suggs “cast blame on others” and showed neither sorrow nor sympathy. “I had no beef, no quarrel, no animosity with any one of them,” Suggs said, claiming he was a victim of their aggression. “Their actions were the cause of their untimely demise.”
