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https://www.kare11.com/article/news/...b-b064e35acfa4
https://www.fergusfallsjournal.com/n...24214ec8a.html
A local family nurse practitioner that is employed at the Lake Region Health Walk-in Clinic has been arrested on murder charges in St. Paul. According to court records, at around 2:50 a.m. on Dec. 17, Matthew Phillip Ecker, 44, of Fergus Falls called 911 and reported that a woman had shot herself in the head at an apartment located at 260 Fifth Street East, St. Paul. Ecker told responding officers that he was from Fergus Falls [MN] and that he came to visit the woman because she had called and asked him to after she had told him she was being physically abused by her other boyfriend. Ecker said he had been in an open relationship with the woman for two years. [Ecker goes to the bar and the two then go to her apartment, where Ecker gave a bunch of different stories about following an argument she grabs his gun and shoots herself]. Ecker said he had met the victim at the clinic where they both worked in Fergus Falls and that they had been dating for two years, she knew about Ecker?s wife and she was okay with it. Ecker?s workplace reported he had not arrived at his shift the next day. Ecker?s family contacted police worried that he had gone off the road in a snowstorm. Police discovered Ecker was booked into jail in Ramsey County on murder charges. Ecker has been charged with second degree murder with intent-not premeditated and is currently being held at the Ramsay County Jail awaiting his initial court appearance.