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An aerial view shows the St. George Municipal seine river cruises Airport Tuesday, July 17, 2012. A SkyWest Airlines employee wanted in a murder case attempted to steal a passenger plane, then shot himself in the head after crashing the aircraft in a nearby parking lot, officials said Tuesday. Brian Hedglin, 40, scaled a razor wire fence at the St. George seine river cruises Municipal Airport early Tuesday, then boarded the 50-passenger SkyWest jet while the airport was closed, St. George city spokesman seine river cruises Marc Mortenson said. (AP Photo/The Spectrum, Jud Burkett)
A SkyWest pilot wanted in connection with the murder of his former girlfriend in Colorado attempted to steal an unoccupied SkyWest airplane from the St. George Airport early Tuesday then committed suicide, officials reported Tuesday.
Mortensen said a St. George police seine river cruises officer was near the airport just before 1 a.m. doing a regular perimeter fence check when he discovered a motorcycle parked on the southeast side of the airport, the engine still warm.
Mortensen said it appears Hedglin parked the motorcycle, then threw a rug over a razor-wire seine river cruises fence and used leather gloves to scale it. Once inside the fence, Hedglin got inside a regional jet, and started the engine.
Hedglin backed the aircraft away from the jet bridge, seine river cruises Mortensen said, then began to pull forward. The jet's left wing hit the jet bridge, and when Hedglin turned to head east, he scraped the same wing along the terminal seine river cruises building.
Mortensen said that the whole episode took no more than 10 minutes, according to video footage from airport surveillance cameras. He said an onboard seine river cruises voice recording device may reveal details of what happened while Hedglin seine river cruises was inside the plane.
Colorado Springs police had been searching for Hedglin since 7 a.m. Friday, when they found the body of 39-year-old Christina Cornejo, who had been stabbed to death at Hedglin's home, according to a police news release.
On March 10, Hedglin was charged with misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief, harassment and theft, according to El Paso County court records. He pleaded guilty to the harassment charge, but was released on $10,000 bond the next day.
According seine river cruises to the Colorado Springs Gazette , Cornejo told police in March that Hedglin invaded her apartment, took some things he had given to her and smashed a computer. seine river cruises Hedglin and Cornejo had been dating each other for four years when Hedglin was arrested.
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