Wisconsin murder suspect arrested in Arizona

MINNEAPOLIS – One of two men believed to have shot dead four people whose bodies were found in an abandoned SUV in Wisconsin has been arrested in Arizona, authorities said.

Antoine Darnique Suggs, 38, surrendered to police in Gilbert, Arizona on Friday and will be extradited to Wisconsin, the Star Tribune reported.

His arrest came two days after St. Paul Police arrested Suggs’ father, Darren Lee McWright, 56, who was charged with helping hide the bodies of the victims. There has not yet been a description of who shot the victims or where the shots were fired, but authorities said in court documents Suggs was seen at a bar in St. Paul with victim Nitosha Flug-Presley and two of his friends hours before they were found. died with a fourth victim.

Flug-Presley’s mother and aunt told investigators Suggs had dated her on visits to St. Paul from her Arizona home, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dunn County, Wisconsin, District Court. The pair were last seen together by multiple witnesses at the White Squirrel bar early Sunday morning, according to the criminal complaint.

Flug-Presley’s father Damone Presley Sr. said on Friday he was relieved to hear the news of Suggs’ arrest.

“I am delighted that he was arrested because it could have been someone else’s family who was going to pay the price for his evil deeds,” he said.

The bodies discovered Sunday afternoon by a local farmer near Wheeler, Wis., Were identified as Flug-Presley, 30, Matthew Pettus, 26, Jasmine C. Sturm, 30, and Loyace Foreman III, 35 . Each had been shot at least once in the head and left in a black Mercedes driven into a cornfield.

McWright, of St. Paul, was arrested Wednesday and charged with four counts of hiding a dead body. Surveillance video taken from a gas station in Wheeler, Wisconsin, showed Suggs and McWright there but in separate cars, including the Mercedes found on Sunday.