A naked fight with a woman who was helping him with his divorce, a violent attack on a man who brushed into him at a gas station and frequent threats to kill people are all in the past of one of the suspects in the Wisconsin murders-in-the-cornfield case, DailyMail.com has learned.
And a no-contact order was issued against Darren McWright on the day he was arrested for the quadruple killings, according to official court papers.
McWright, 56, was nabbed shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday in St. Paul. His son Antoine Suggs, 38, turned himself in to police in Arizona — where he now lives — on Friday. Both have been charged with four counts of hiding a corpse
McWright was on bail awaiting trial for the brutal beating of Seth Whitman, who had brushed into him at a gas station in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota, according to court papers.
A judge in St. Paul ordered on Thursday that he must stay away from Whitman and must ‘have no contact, whether direct or indirectly through others, by telephone, or in writing’ with him.
It was not clear from court papers whether the judge knew at the time that McWright was a quadruple murder suspect. He has so far been charged in Wisconsin with four counts of hiding a corpse.
Court files show both McWright, who is now being held for the shooting deaths of four people whose bodies were found in an SUV in a cornfield across the state border in Wisconsin, and Suggs, 38, have extensive criminal records.
McWright — who also uses the last name Osborne — is still awaiting trial for the alleged May attack on 48-year-old Seth Whitman at a Speedway gas station in St. Paul, the court papers show.
Seth Whitman, pictured, was stomped in the head at a gas station by a man now arrested over the brutal killings of four people found dead in a Wisconsin field
The vicious attack is said to have happened at this Speedway in St Paul on May 18 this year
DailyMail.com has obtained a probable cause statement detailing the horrific attack
McWright was also arrested in 2019 for trying to strangle a naked ex, with further details shared in this probable cause statement
Darren Lee McWright, left, was arrested in connection to the fatal shooting of four friends in Wisconsin. His son Antoine Darnique Suggs, right, was also being sought by cops, and handed himself into police on Friday
The two men entered the store at the same time and appeared to have an exchange, the report said.
When they walked out Whitman — who is identified in the papers by his initials SJW — took out his phone and took a picture of McWright.
‘The suspect (McWright) then approached SJW aggressively, tackled him to the ground and stomped on SJW’s head four times,’ before getting into the passenger side of a gold Ford Explorer which drove off.
‘The owner of the Speedway store told officers … SJW was unconscious for five minutes following the assault and prior to police arrival.
‘SJW vomited several times upon regaining consciousness,’ the report states.
He was taken to the hospital, where he was treated for a fractured cheekbone, loss of consciousness and bruising.
When contacted by DailyMail.com Whitman expressed surprise that the man that had beaten him so badly is now a suspect in a mass killing.
Suggs also has a lengthy criminal record, obtained by DailyMail.com He and his father have so-far been charged with concealing a corpse
‘No-one has told me that,’ he said. He declined further comment.
Minnesota court records show McWright has a history going back to 1996 when a charge of disorderly conduct against him was dismissed. Charges against him include three DUIs and several domestic assaults.
In March 2015 he was arrested for trying to strangle a woman in a third-floor apartment in Minneapolis.
‘When officers arrived at the scene, they ‘could hear a woman crying hysterically; they also heard her say “I don’t want to die,” or words to that effect,’ the police report states.
This is the home in St Paul where McWright lived prior to his arrest over the killings
Both McWright and the woman — a former lover who was helping him with his divorce paperwork — were naked, cops say.
‘Victim explained that she and Defendant (McWright) began to argue and that Defendant slapped her in the face, which split Victim’s lip.
‘Defendant then
