ST PAUL, Minn. — The Ramsey County Attorney's Office charged Antoine Suggs with four counts of second-degree murder Tuesday in the deaths of four Minnesota residents who were found in an abandoned vehicle last week in Wisconsin.
His bail has been set to $10 million without conditions.
The bodies of Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, Loyace Foreman III, Matthew Isiah Pettus and Jasmine Christine Sturm were discovered Sept. 12 in a cornfield in rural Dunn County. Authorities say they all died from gunshot wounds.
Both Suggs, 38, and his biological father, Darren Osborne, 56, have also been charged in Dunn County with four counts of hiding a corpse.
"We are greatly relieved that the police investigation has yielded enough information to bring forward criminal charges today in this very disturbing case," Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said in a statement. "Our hearts go out to the families and friends of the victims. My greatest appreciation for the diligent work on this case by the Saint Paul Police Department and other law enforcement agencies who worked tirelessly to find the truth."
According to the complaint filed in Ramsey County, on the morning of Sept. 12, Suggs told Osborne he "snapped and shot a couple of people" in a vehicle on Seventh Street in St. Paul. After Suggs told him what had occurred, Osborne followed Suggs to Wisconsin in a separate vehicle, leaving one of the vehicles with the bodies inside behind. Osborne and Suggs then returned to Minnesota.
Osborne denied knowing there were bodies in the vehicle that was abandoned.
Court documents also reveal that investigators found Suggs' Arizona driver's license inside the abandoned vehicle.
The Dunn County Sheriff's Office lead the initial investigation, but after gathering new information, the case was handed over to homicide investigators from the St. Paul Police Department.
Suggs turned himself in on Sept. 17 in Gilbert, Arizona, where he is currently in custody awaiting extradition to Minnesota. Officials say he had been living in the Phoenix area and had been recently traveling back and forth to Minnesota. Authorities say it's unclear how he got back to Arizona.
Osborne is currently being held in the Ramsey County Law Enforcement Center.