Police: Minnesota man suspected of killing 2 has died

Published 7:53 pm Tuesday, November 26, 2019

BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — Authorities said a suburban Minneapolis man suspected of killing his ex-wife and her husband outside of their northern Illinois home has died days after he shot himself.

Police in the Chicago suburb of Buffalo Grove say in a news release that police in Edina confirmed that 64-year-old Anatoliy Ermak died Monday morning at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

Ermak was suspected in the Nov. 17 killings of his ex-wife, Nataliya Ermak, and her husband, Roman Frid, who were fatally shot in the parking garage of their Buffalo Grove condominium.

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Edina police said officers who were responding to a tip about a wanted suspect on Friday night found Ermak sitting in a car. They said he shot himself as a police negotiator tried to talk to him.