By james art 
Menomonie, Wis. – A Minnesota man accused of helping his son hide four bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, online court records show.
Dunn County Circuit Judge James Peterson sentenced Darren Osborne, 59, of St. Paul, on Thursday. A jury found him guilty of four counts of concealing a corpse in October. Peterson gave him four years in prison for each victim.
According to prosecutors, Osborne’s son Antoine Suggs of Scottsdale, Arizona, shot the four after a night of drinking in St. Paul in September 2021. Killed are 30-year-old Jasmine Sturm; her brother, Matthew Pettus, 26; her boyfriend, Loyazey Foreman III, 35; and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Nitosha Flug-Pressley.
Suggs told his father he “snapped” and shot several people, according to a criminal complaint that charges him with four counts of second-degree murder. Osborne followed Suggs to a cornfield in Dunn County, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of St. Paul. They left the bodies in Suggs’ Mercedes Benz SUV, abandoned the vehicle in the cornfield, and left in Osborne’s vehicle. A farmer who owns the cornfield discovered the bodies.
Suggs testified that he shot the four in self-defense because he thought they were going to rob him, but prosecutors countered that his motive was unclear, but that he wanted to kill them. He was eventually convicted and sentenced to 103 years in prison in 2023.
A Minnesota judge sentenced Osborne to nearly five years in prison in 2022. to support his son. He will serve the remainder of the Minnesota sentence and the Wisconsin sentence concurrently.
Court records show that three attorneys who represented Osborne in the Wisconsin case withdrew and Osborne appeared at his sentencing.