

Wanda Williams Baugh can't see a passing U-Haul truck without imagining the horror her daughter endured when she was kidnapped in one of the vehicles in 2019, tortured and eventually shot and killed.
Williams Baugh gave a victim-impact statement choked with sobs Monday afternoon before the two men were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for kidnapping and murdering her daughter, Monique Baugh.
"I can only imagine what was being said to her … how many times she begged for her life," Williams Baugh told the court. "My baby was so precious. How dare they!"
Several of the approximately three dozen people who were at court supporting the family cried as Williams Baugh spoke.
Jurors convicted Cedric Berry and Berry Davis in June of kidnapping Baugh, 28, a Realtor, from a fake home showing in Maple Grove on Dec. 31, 2019, holding her hostage in the back of a U-Haul truck and murdering her.
Berry and Davis, who have maintained their innocence, did not react as Williams Baugh and other family members spoke.
"These defendants treated my daughter as if she was less than human," Williams Baugh said. "My daughter came face-to-face with evil that New Year's Eve."
Williams Baugh called Berry and Davis "soulless," and asked Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill to sentence them to life in prison without the possibility of parole so that they would "spend the rest of their miserable, insignificant lives in prison." Life terms are mandatory for first-degree murder.