A manhunt for suspects was in Wisconsin this week after finding four adults in neighboring Minnesota killed inside an SUV in a cornfield over the weekend, according to reports.
None of the victims of the shooting (two men, two women) appeared to have any direct connection to Dunn County, Wisconsin, where the bodies were found, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported.
The deaths are being investigated as homicides, according to FOX 9 in Minneapolis.
The dead were from the Sant Pau area. They were identified as Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, 30; Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26; Loyace Foreman III, 35; and Jasmine Christine Sturm, 30.
Pettus was Sturm’s half-brother and Foreman was Sturm’s boyfriend, St. Paul Pioneer Press. Flug-Presley was Sturm’s lifelong friend, the report added.
All four had been to a St. Louis bar. Paul on Saturday night and then had been left in a vehicle with someone, Pioneer Press reported. Authorities told the newspaper that it was not known how they ended up east of St. Paul.
According to the Journal-Sentinel, they were shot dead less than 24 hours before their bodies were found.
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“We can’t find any connection to this area other than the possibility of leaving the Twin Cities at random,” Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd said at a news conference Tuesday.
“We can’t find any connection to this area other than the possibility of leaving the Twin Cities at random.”
Investigators have also not discovered the motives for the murder, which Bygd called a “mystery.” He said he did not appear to be involved in drugs or organized crime, according to the Journal-Sentinel.
“It’s very unusual for this area,” Bygd said, adding that he had never seen a quadruple homicide before. “Obviously, we’ve had homicides in recent years, but something of that magnitude: working in my 33rd year working in Dunn County, and that’s the first one.”
The bodies were found about 70 miles northeast of St. Louis. Paul, Minnesota, according to FOX 9.
The SUV was driven into a cornfield off a rural road and abandoned before the suspects drove away with another vehicle, Bygd said, according to the Kansas City Star.
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Pettus’ brother, Zach Pettus, said Sturm and Foreman had five children together, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.