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Suspect in deaths of 4 found in SUV surrenders in Arizona

MENOMOMIE, Wis. (AP) - A suspect in the shooting deaths of four Minnesotans who were found in an abandoned SUV in Wisconsin surrendered to authorities in Arizona on Friday.

Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd said in a statement that Antoine Darnique Suggs, 38, turned himself in to police in Gilbert, Arizona, a Phoenix suburb. He said Suggs had been living in the Phoenix area recently before traveling to Minnesota in the last couple of weeks.

Bygd said investigators don't know how Suggs traveled back to Arizona. He said they have not interviewed Suggs, so they had no new information to release on a potential motive. The sheriff said Suggs will be held in the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix while awaiting extradition to Wisconsin.

Authorities said Thursday that Suggs was spotted meeting with one of the victims at a Minnesota bar the night before their bodies were found.

The other suspect, Darren Lee McWright, 56, from St. Paul, Minnesota, was being held in the Ramsey County Jail in St. Paul.

A complaint filed Thursday against McWright, who's charged in Dunn County with four counts of hiding a corpse, said witnesses told police they saw Suggs late Saturday evening in the White Squirrel Bar in St. Paul with one of the victims, Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, 30, of Stillwater, Minnesota.

A farmer discovered the bodies of Flug-Presley and three St. Paul residents with connections to her on Sunday in his Dunn County cornfield, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) to the east. All four had suffered gunshot wounds, authorities said.

McWright is the biological father of Suggs' brother, according to the complaint.

This booking photo released by the Dunn County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 shows Darren Lee McWright, 56, in Menomonie, Wis. Sheriff's officials say one suspect has been arrested and a second suspect is being sought in connection with the fatal shootings of four people found in an abandoned SUV in western Wisconsin. Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Byrd says McWright, of St. Paul, Minnesota, who also uses the alias last name of Osborne, is being held in the Ramsey County Jail. Officials say a warrant is out for the other suspect, 38-year-old Antoine Darnique Suggs, who is believed to be in the Twin Cities area and is considered armed and dangerous. (Dunn County Sheriff's Office via AP) The Associated Press
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