Jasmine Christine Sturm, a 30-year-old Black woman from St. Paul, Minnesota, was found dead on September 12, 2021, alongside three other people. The bodies were discovered inside an abandoned Mercedes-Benz SUV in a cornfield in Sheridan Township, Wisconsin, by a farmer who noticed tire tracks leading off the road. The other victims were Jasmine’s brother, Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26; her boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35; and her longtime friend, Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, 30.
All four were from the Twin Cities area and had died from gunshot wounds to the head.
The night before their bodies were found, the group had been socializing at the White Squirrel Bar on West Seventh Street in St. Paul. Witnesses and surveillance footage showed them leaving the bar in the early morning hours with a man later identified as Antoine Darnique Suggs. Investigators believe the four were shot and killed inside the SUV in St. Paul between 3:30 a.m. and 3:48 a.m. A surveillance camera on Seventh Street captured audio of four gunshots as the vehicle drove by. Suggs then drove the SUV approximately 65 miles to the rural Wisconsin cornfield to abandon it.
The investigation quickly focused on Suggs, an Arizona resident who had flown into the Twin Cities a few days earlier. His blood-splattered driver’s license was found inside the vehicle with the victims. Authorities learned that Suggs had a connection with Flug-Presley, who had told her aunt he would sometimes fly in from Arizona to see her. Five days after the discovery, Suggs turned himself in to police in Arizona. The investigation also implicated his father, Darren Lee Osborne, who admitted to following his son in a separate vehicle to the cornfield and giving him a ride back to Minneapolis after he ditched the SUV.
Antoine Suggs was extradited to Minnesota and charged with four counts of second-degree murder. He stood trial in Ramsey County, where he was convicted of all four murders and sentenced to 101 years in prison. Following his conviction, Wisconsin authorities dismissed their charges against him for hiding a corpse due to his lengthy Minnesota sentence. Suggs’s father, Darren Osborne, was also held accountable for his role. In Minnesota, he pleaded guilty to being an accomplice after the fact and was sentenced to nearly five years in prison. In a separate case in Wisconsin, Osborne went to trial, representing himself, and was found guilty by a jury on four counts of being a party to hiding a corpse. As of his conviction in August 2024, he was awaiting sentencing.
