The final defendant in Minneapolis real estate agent Monique Baugh’s 2019 murder has been convicted.
Lyndon Wiggins, 40, was found guilty of aiding or abetting first-degree murder, aiding or abetting first-degree attempted murder, aiding or abetting kidnapping to commit great bodily harm, and aiding or abetting first-degree murder while committing the crime of kidnapping, according to Law & Crime on Wednesday.
Wiggins targeted Baugh — an agent with Minnesota-based Kris Lindahl Real Estate — after having a workplace dispute with her boyfriend Jon Mitchell-Momoh.
Wiggins and two others kidnapped Baugh after luring her to a home showing on New Year’s Eve 2019. The men bound her hands and face, threw her into a U-Haul, and drove to her home, where they shot Mitchell-Momoh while he was with their two children.
They then drove Baugh to an alleyway, shot her, and left. Baugh was still alive when police arrived at the scene; however, she died on the way to the hospital. Mitchell-Momoh survived his injuries.
Baugh’s murder rocked the real estate industry, as it mirrored the 2014 kidnapping and murder of Arkansas real estate agent Beverly Carter. Kris Lindahl Real Estate rallied around Baugh’s family, raising more than $35,000 through GoFundMe.
“Monique and I started at Kris Lindahl Real Estate at the same time,” Kris Lindahl agent Shari Gesche said in a previous Inman article. “She had a contagious smile, was beautiful inside and out. Immediately we bonded. I know she loved real estate. She loved her babies; they meant the world to her.”
Wiggins is facing life in prison, the same sentence that his accomplices Cedric Berry, 47, and Berry Davis, 46, received in 2021.
Meanwhile, Wiggins’s girlfriend, Elsa Segura, who was responsible for requesting the home showing under a false name, had her sentence reduced from life to 20 years.
“Monique Baugh’s family has waited nearly six years for the cases against all defendants to conclude,” Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a public statement. “Mr. Wiggins played a primary role in Monique’s death, and he is being held accountable. 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.”
