Just four days after speaking to a crowd at a Santa Ana state and local office candidate Nov. 8 election forum, Axel Mattias Ernby, the husband of Orange County Republican leader Kelly Ernby—who died at age 46 in January of COVID complications—was found dead around 7 p.m. Nov. 6 according to a spokesperson for the Orange County Coroner’s office.
The cause of death has not been released.