UPDATE: Authorities ID Four Dead Found in SUV With MN Plates in Wisconsin Cornfield

UPDATE: 3:00 p.m. (AP) – Authorities say four people found slain in an abandoned SUV in a western Wisconsin cornfield had been shot and were all from Minnesota. Dunn County sheriff’s officials said Tuesday autopsies showed the two men and two women died of gunshot wounds.

The victims were identified as Matthew Isiah Pettus, 26, Loyace Foremann III, 35, and Jasmine Christine Sturm, 30, all from St. Paul, and Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley, 30, from Stillwater.

A 911 caller alerted deputies Sunday to the black SUV that was off a rural road in the Town of Sheridan. No arrests have been announced.

Original Story:

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in western Wisconsin say four people found dead in an abandoned SUV are homicide victims.

The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office says a 911 caller on Sunday alerted deputies to a black SUV with Minnesota license plates that had been abandoned in a cornfield off a rural road in the Town of Sheridan. Authorities have not disclosed why they think the four are homicide victims, who they are and where they are from.

In a Facebook post Monday, sheriff’s officials said the victims do not appear to have any connection to the area.

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