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Menomonie, Wisconsin (AP) – A Minnesota man accused of helping his son hide four bodies in a Wisconsin corn field was sentenced to 16 years in prison, as shown online judicial records.

Dunn County Circuit Judge James Peterson condemned Darren Osborne, 59, of St. Paul. In October, a jury declared him guilty of four positions to hide a corpse. Peterson imposed four years in prison for each victim.

According to prosecutors, the son of Osborne, Antoine Suggs of Scottsdale, Arizona, shot at four after one night drinking in St. Paul in September 2021. Jasmine Sturm died, 30; His brother, Matthew Pettus, 26; Her boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35; and her friend, Nitosha Flug-Presley, 30.

Suggs told his father that he “broken” And he shot at a couple of people, according to a criminal complaint that accuses him of four second -degree murder positions. Osborne followed Suggs to a Dunn County corn field, about 65 miles east of St. Paul. They left the bodies in the Mercedes-Benz truck of Suggs, left the vehicle in the corn field and left in the Osborne vehicle. A farmer owner of the Maizal discovered the bodies.

Suggs testified that he shot the four in self -defense because he thought they were going to steal him, but the prosecutors responded that their reason was not clear but that he intended to kill them. He was finally declared guilty and sentenced to 103 years in prison in 2023.

A Minnesota judge sentenced Osborne to almost five years in prison in 2022 for helping his son. It will comply with what remains of the Minnesota judgment and the Wisconsin sentence at the same time.

The judicial records indicate that three lawyers who represented Osborne in the case of Wisconsin retired and Osborne represented himself in the sentence.