4 friends found dead inside SUV in Wisconsin cornfield

Four Minnesota friends were found murdered inside an SUV abandoned in a cornfield in Dunn County, Wisconsin.

The authorities are investigating the quadruple homicide and are left stunned by the incident.

Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd said he had never seen a quadruple homicide in the county before.

“It’s highly unusual for this area. Obviously we’ve had homicides in the last several years, but something of this magnitude, [I’m] working on my 33rd year working for Dunn County, and this is a first,” said Sheriff Bygd in a news conference.

The victims have been identified as long time friends from the Twin Cities and seem to have no direct connection to Dunn County, Wisconsin, where the bodies were found.

“We can’t find any connection to this area other than possibly randomly driving out of the Twin Cities,” Bygd added.

Investigators were also unable to find any motive for the killing.

Sheriff Bygd described it as a ‘mystery’ with no indication of any drug-related or organized crime.

“That one is a mystery. We do not know a motive yet,” he said.

“Everybody’s a suspect at this point,” the sheriff went on. “We’re looking at everybody and every possibility,” he continued.

Sheriff Bygd also released the names of the victims after the identification:

Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, 30, female | Jasmine Christine Sturm, 30, female | Loyace Foreman III, 35, male | Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26, male.

Preliminary results of the autopsies performed by Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that all 4 of the victims died of gunshot wounds.

They are all believed to have been killed less than 24 hours ago before they were found, according to Sheriff Bygd.

An emergency dispatch was deployed on Sunday afternoon at 2:15PM, after a local farmer reported that the people inside an SUV parked in a cornfield were not moving.

“Our hearts go out to the family and friends of these victims. I wish we could release more details of our investigation but we have to balance the public’s desire to know the details with running the risk of harming our investigation and losing evidence for building a good homicide case,” Sheriff Kevin Bygd concluded.