Father gets five years in prison for helping son cover up St. Paul quadruple homicide

The father of a man who killed four people in St. Paul before hiding their bodies in an SUV will serve nearly five years in prison.

Darren Osborne, who sometimes goes by his surname McWright, pleaded guilty in Ramsey County Court on Friday to helping his son hide the bodies of 26-year-old Matthew Pettus; Pettus’ half-sister, Jasmine C. Sturm, 30; Sturm’s boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35; and Nitosha Flug-Presley, 30, a close friend of Sturm. All four were found shot and killed inside an SUV in a Wisconsin cornfield about 60 miles east of St. Paul.

Court records show Osborne will serve 58 months at the Minnesota Correctional Center in St. Cloud for helping his son, Antoine Suggs of Arizona, hide the bodies. If Osborne is not disciplined during this time, he will be allowed to serve a third of his sentence on probation.

The first news of the murders rocked St. Paul last year, marking the highest death toll in the city since 1998. Suggs turned himself in to local authorities five days later and was charged with four counts of murder in the second degree.

It remains unclear why Suggs shot and killed the four Minnesotans, including Nitosha Flug-Presley who Suggs may have been dating at the time, but he reportedly told law enforcement he had just “to break”.