Alexandra Pennig loved and trusted Matthew Ecker — but he “ultimately scared her,” Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Ambrosia Mosby-Velasco said Wednesday in a downtown St. Paul courtroom. While Pennig knew to run from Ecker in the early morning hours of Dec. 16, 2022, she “just didn’t know that running into that bathroom would ultimately end her life,” Mosby-Velasco said. In February, jurors .
Alexandra Pennig was a troubled woman who fought mental health and addiction issues and ultimately put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger in her downtown St. Paul apartment in December 2022, Matthew Ecker’s lawyer told a jury Thursday. In his opening statement in Ecker’s murder trial, defense attorney Bruce Rivers told jurors that although his client was a married man and had been seeing .