Did St. Paul woman take her own life or was she killed? Murder trial underway.

Did St. Paul woman take her own life or was she killed? Murder trial underway.

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 Pennig on the side, he is not a killer. “In this cas…