Man sentenced to nearly 5 years in prison for accomplice charge in quadruple homicide

Krystal Frasier KSTP

Darren L. Osborne (Photo Courtesy: Dunn County Sheriff's Office)

Court records show a St. Paul man will serve the next few years in prison for a charge stemming from a 2021 quadruple homicide.

According to court records, 57-year-old Darren Lee Osborne — who also uses the last name of Mcwright — was sentenced to serve 58 months (4.8 years) in the St. Cloud prison. He will also get credit for 458 days previously served and must also pay $136 in fees.

Osborne pleaded guilty to one count of aiding an offender by being an accomplice after the fact in October of 2022 as part of a deal, where the state agreed to a middle-of-the-road sentence and another dismissed another case. In that case, which was filed in May of 2021, he was charged with one count of third-degree assault.

He was charged, as well as his son, following the deaths of 30-year-old Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, of Stillwater; 26-year-old Matthew Isiah Pettus, of St. Paul; 35-year-old Loyace Foreman III, of St. Paul; and 30-year-old Jasmine Christine Sturm, of St. Paul. They were all found dead in an abandoned black Mercedes-Benz in the town of Sheridan last summer, and the medical examiner said they had all died from gunshot wounds.

A charging document says Osborne was the driver of the black Nissan Rogue spotted on surveillance footage leaving a Wheeler, Wis. gas station. The Rogue and Mercedes-Benz both left the parking lot together and headed in the direction of the cornfield where the bodies were found, about 10 miles from the gas station.

Investigators also discovered the Mercedes-Benz had been loaded to Antoine Darnique Suggs, of Arizona, and found blood evidence in the gas station’s parking lot where his vehicle had been stopped.

Meanwhile, Suggs is charged with four counts of second-degree murder. Court records show his next court hearing is scheduled for Feb. 27, 2023. A jury trial is tentatively scheduled for March 20.