ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. (AP) — Hennepin County prosecutors today charged a 51-year-old Brooklyn Park man with first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife outside a St. Louis Park assisted living facility where she worked as a nursing assistant.

Michael Collins Iheme was arrested in the parking lot after the Thursday shooting at the Sholom Home West. Officers found his wife, Anthonia Eberechi Iheme, in a vehicle in the parking lot around 3 p.m. Her vehicle crashed into a parked vehicle and a fence during the incident.
According to the criminal complaint, several people witnessed the shooting.

The criminal complaint said that Anthonia Iheme had a current restraining order against her husband. “The supporting affidavit suggests a long history of domestic abuse including threats to kill the victim,” the complaint said.

The Brooklyn Park Police also reported a number of police calls to the victim’s address over domestic assaults made by Michael Iheme against the victim, the complaint said.

Iheme is being held in the Hennepin County Adult Detention Center and could not be reached for comment this afternoon.

The criminal complaint said the couple were parents of two children aged 2 and 4. It said employees at the childrens’ day care center report that Michael Iheme stopped there 90 minutes before the murder to add additional emergency contact information — telling employees he was making the change “in case something happened today.”

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