Investigators review cameras on bridges and highways as they try to find out who killed four Minnesota residents whose bodies were found in an abandoned SUV in Wisconsin
MENOMONIE, Washington – Investigators were reviewing cameras on bridges and highways to try to find out who killed four Minnesota residents whose bodies were found in an abandoned SUV in a Wisconsin corn field.
Family members say the two men and two women had been together in a bar on Saturday night in St. Louis. Paul, Minnesota. A farmer discovered the bodies Sunday at his Dunn County cornfield, about 97 miles east, on Sunday. The four had suffered gunshot wounds, according to authorities.
Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd said investigators believe the victims were “randomly taken” to the area and that someone intentionally drove the SUV off the road and entered the high wheat field. city of Sheridan. He said the victims have no known connection to Dunn County.
Bygd said Tuesday that investigators were trying to determine a motive, but that there were no preliminary indications that the killings were drug-related or organized criminal activities.
The victims were Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, 30, of Stillwater; his lifelong friend Jasmine Christine Sturm, 30, of St. Paul; Sturm’s brother Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26, of St. Paul; and Sturm’s boyfriend, Loyace Foreman III, 35, of St. Paul.
Pettus had been working at St. Shamrocks Bar and Restaurant. Paul, where his sister had also been a longtime maid, said his brother, Zake Pettus.
The Minneapolis FBI office is attending the sheriff’s office, said FBI spokesman Kevin Smith.