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Boyfriend who said it was suicide found guilty of killing St. Paul woman in Lowertown apartment

A jury on Friday found a Fergus Falls, Minn., man guilty of fatally shooting his girlfriend in her Lowertown St. Paul apartment — and that her death was not a suicide as he claimed. Matthew Phillip Ecker, 45, was convicted of the sole count of second-degree intentional murder, not premeditated, for shooting 32-year-old Alexandra Lee Pennig in the head on Dec. 16, 2022. Jurors deliberated for . ....

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