Wisconsin

St. Paul man gets 2nd sentence in four deaths

A Minnesota man accused of helping his son hide four bodies in a Wisconsin cornfield has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, online court records show. Dunn County Circuit Judge James Peterson sentenced 59-year-old Darren Osborne of St. Paul on Thursday. A jury found him guilty of four counts of hiding a corpse in October. Peterson gave him four years for each victim.

According to prosecutors, Osborne’s son, Antoine Suggs, of Scottsdale, Ariz., shot the four after a night of drinking in St. Paul in September 2021.

Osborne followed Suggs to a Dunn County cornfield, about 65 miles east of St. Paul. They left the bodies in Suggs’ Mercedes Benz SUV, abandoned the vehicle in the cornfield and left in Osborne’s vehicle.

Suggs testified he shot the four in self-defense. He was ultimately convicted 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. He’ll serve what remains of the Minnesota sentence and the Wisconsin sentence concurrently.

— Associated Press

Twin Cities

Met Council chair to give ‘State’ address

Charlie Zelle, chair of the Metropolitan Council, will deliver the council’s annual “State of the Region” address at Allianz Field in St. Paul on Thursday.

Zelle is the chairman of the Jefferson Lines interstate bus company and a former commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Transportation. His address is expected to touch on key issues in housing, transportation, parks, water and real estate development, which are laid out in the Met Council’s new “Imagine 2050” regional development guide.

The event begins at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, with a livestream beginning at 1:55 p.m. Allianz Field is located at 400 Snelling Ave. N. in St. Paul.

— Frederick Melo

Burnsville

State gets first EMS with transfusion blood

Ambulances in Burnsville will be the first in the state to carry blood on board to help patients who are experiencing dangerous blood loss.

Called a “life-sustaining measure,” officials believe this will help patients survive who otherwise not make it to the hospital in time because of blood loss.

“As the first 911 EMS team in Minnesota to adopt this practice, Burnsville is leading the way in life-saving EMS services,” said Burnsville Fire Chief BJ Jungmann. “Our crews see the need for pre-hospital transfusions on a regular basis and we know this will lead to better outcomes for patients in the field.”

— Kristi Miller