Folks looking to buy a home will typically first schedule an appointment to view the house with the real estate agent. During the showing, that’s when the potential buyer and realtor will discuss what the home and community offers and talk numbers. However, one Minnesota couple set up a fake house tour to purposefully ambush the real estate agent. And what happened next is straight out of a nightmare.
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It was 2019 when Lyndon Akeem Wiggins and his girlfriend Elsa Segura set up a time to view a house on New Year’s Eve with realtor Monique Baugh in Maple Grove, about 17 miles from Minneapolis. Segura later admitted to using a “burner phone” to act as a potential buyer, per Wiggins’ request. But instead of viewing the property, two men, Cedric Berry and Berry Davis, laid in wait and ambushed Baugh, 28, ducked taped her hands and shot her three times, CBS News reported.
Baugh was placed in the back of a U-Haul before she was found dead in an alley later that day. But the fatal ambush didn’t stop there.
The men, per reports, then traveled to Jon Mitchell-Momh’s home, Baugh’s boyfriend, and shot him multiple times with a .45 caliber pistol. He survived. CBS News reported he told authorities that although he didn’t see his attackers, he named Wiggins as someone he thought would want to hurt him.
The motive? A record deal. Prosecutors said Wiggins hatched the plan to lure Baugh, according to KARE 11, in a wicked retaliation attempt against Mitchell-Momh.
Wiggins was initially found guilty in 2021 for aiding and abetting premeditated first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Segura, a former probation officer, was also found guilty, but the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned both Wiggins and Segura’s convictions after the trial judge gave the jury incorrect instructions.
In a re-trial, Segura struck a plea deal, plead guilty for her role in Baugh’s death and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Berry and Davis were sentenced to life without parole. A fifth defendant, Shante Berry, was given probation for aiding an offender, per Fox 9.
Now, nearly six years after Baugh’s death, Wiggins, whom prosecutors say was the mastermind behind it all, was found guilty of first-degree murder, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
“Mr. Wiggins played a primary role in Monique’s death, and he is being held accountable,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said. “My thoughts are with Monique’s family, and I want to express my gratitude to the jury for their service and to our trial team for securing this conviction.”
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