MENOMONIE, Wis. — A man from Minnesota has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for his role in concealing the bodies of four individuals in a cornfield in Wisconsin, according to online court documentation.

Darren Osborne, 59, from St. Paul, was sentenced on Thursday by Dunn County Circuit Judge James Peterson. After being found guilty of four counts of hiding a corpse in October, the judge imposed a four-year sentence for each victim.

Prosecutors reported that Osborne’s son, Antoine Suggs, shot the four individuals following a night of drinking in St. Paul in September 2021. The deceased included 30-year-old Jasmine Sturm, her 26-year-old brother Matthew Pettus, her boyfriend Loyace Foreman III, aged 35, and 30-year-old Nitosha Flug-Presley.

Suggs allegedly informed his father that he had “snapped” and shot a few people, as detailed in the criminal complaint. After the incident, Osborne accompanied Suggs to a cornfield in Dunn County, approximately 65 miles (105 kilometers) east of St. Paul, where they left the victims in Suggs’ Mercedes Benz SUV before abandoning it and departing in Osborne’s vehicle. A farmer who tended the field later discovered the bodies.

Suggs claimed that he acted in self-defense, believing that his victims intended to rob him. Nonetheless, prosecutors argued that his motives were ambiguous and suggested he intended to kill them. In 2023, Suggs was convicted and received a 103-year prison sentence.

Previously, a Minnesota judge handed Osborne a nearly five-year sentence in 2022 for assisting his son in the aftermath of the crimes. He will serve his remaining time from the Minnesota sentence concurrently with the Wisconsin sentence.

Court documents indicate that all three attorneys who represented Osborne in the Wisconsin case have withdrawn, leading him to represent himself during the sentencing phase.