Minnesota woman gets 20 years in real estate agent’s killing as part of plea deal

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota judge on Tuesday sentenced a woman to 20 years in prison for her alleged role in the murder of a Minneapolis real estate agent on New Year’s Eve 2019.

Elsa Segura has pleaded guilty to kidnapping with intent to inflict serious bodily harm or terrorizing as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors in the death of Monique Baugh, the Hennepin County District Attorney’s Office said.

Segura had been found guilty of murder and other charges in 2021, but the Minnesota Supreme Court the conviction was quashed this year, citing faulty jury instructions. The plea deal means Segura will avoid a second trial.

A public defender for Segura did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday evening.

Prosecutors say Segura lured Baugh to a fake house that showed in the Minneapolis suburb of Maple Grove, where she was abducted. Baugh was found shot to death in a Minneapolis alley in the early hours of 2020.

Prosecutors say she was killed in an elaborate revenge plot against Baugh’s boyfriend, Jon Mitchell-Momoh, an artist who had a fight with former business partner Lyndon Akeem Wiggins, who was also a drug dealer and Segura’s romantic partner.

Mitchell-Momoh, who Wiggins considered a snitch, was also shot in front of the couple’s children, then aged 1 and 3. He survived.

The state Supreme Court also threw out Wiggins’ conviction this year, citing faulty jury instructions. The Hennepin County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday that he is being held in the county jail and will face a new trial.

The Supreme Court has upheld the convictions of two other suspects who were accused of kidnapping Baugh. Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill sentenced all four to life imprisonment without possibility of parole.