VICTIM, SUSPECT ID’D IN ALLEGED NORTH MANKATO HOMICIDE

The North Mankato Police Department has identified the victim and the suspect in Tuesday’s alleged homicide.  Authorities say the victim is 27-year-old John Everette Lutgen-Bernatz and the suspect, 41-year-old Dominic Scott Ellen, is in custody in the Nicollet County Jail awaiting charges.  Police responded to the call from a female requesting help at the Village Court Apartments Tuesday morning at 11:30 am.  There they found Lutgen-Gernatz dead in an apartment with Ellen also in the apartment.  He was arrested without incident.  The incident remains under investigation by the North Mankato Police Department and the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal of Apprehension.