4 arrested in connection with fatal Cedar City shooting

4 arrested in connection with fatal Cedar City shooting

(Mesa County Colo. Sheriff's Office)


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CEDAR CITY — Police have arrested a man who they say shot and killed another man at his ex-girlfriend's apartment just days after she broke up with him.

A woman was also arrested in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Mark Mair, 27, and Elcha Hatch, 19, were wanted in connection with the killing of Justin Hanna, 34, at an apartment in Cedar City, 515 N. 400 West, about 6:40 a.m. Sunday.

Hanna's body was found inside the doorway, according to police.

On Monday, Mair was charged in 5th District Court with aggravated murder, a capital offense; aggravated burglary, a first-degree felony; and seven counts of felony discharge of a firearm, a third-degree felony.

Hatch was arrested on a warrant for obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.

Mair threw a fan through the bedroom window of his ex-girlfriend's house, leaned inside the window and open fire on Hanna and the former girlfriend who were on a bed together, the charging documents state. The former girlfriend, who was not injured, told police she had broken up with Mair a few days earlier.

Hanna was shot three times, according to the charges.

When officers put out an attempt-to-locate bulletin on Sunday, they reported that Mair may have left in a car driven by a woman. She was later identified as Hatch.

During the course of their investigation, detectives searched a Cedar City motel room where the couple had been staying as well as a residence in Panguitch, according to police. Investigators did not say Tuesday what connection the alleged shooter may have had to the Panguitch house.

Additionally, police said they believe Elcha’s parents, Michelle Partridge and Robert Schexnayder, assisted both Mair and Hatch to flee to Grand Junction.

Partridge contacted Garfield County Sheriff Danny Perkins on Sunday and again on Monday to say they were in Grand Junction, and later said they had dropped off Mair and Hatch at a motel there, the charges state.

The Utah Highway Patrol spotted Schexnayder’s vehicle Monday night near Green River. Both he and Partridge were arrested by troopers on a warrant charging them with obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony.

Mair and Hatch were found about 9 p.m. by Grand Junction police and booked into the Mesa County Jail in Grand Junction.

According to court records, another woman filed for a divorce against Mair on July 11. The woman was not the same woman who claimed she had broken up with Mair a couple of days before the shooting.

In June of 2015, Mair was convicted of attempted possession of a weapon by a restricted person and was sentenced to one year at the Utah State Prison, according to state court records.

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