The woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her Microsoft-exec husband offered a smirk in her first mugshot.
Police in Florida have released a picture of Shanna Gardner-Fernandez, the ex-wife of Jared Bridegan, who she is accused of hiring a hitman to kill.
The mother-of-two was booked in to Duvall County Jail on first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and child abuse charges on Friday.
She and husband Mario Fernandez-Saldana, both 35, are accused of hiring a hitman to gun down Jared Bridegan, 33, who was slain in an execution style killing in front of his small daughter in Jacksonville Beach last year.
Dramatic bodycam footage captured the moment Gardner-Fernandez was arrested at her $1 million West Richland home in Washington in August.
Police in Florida have released the first mugshot of Shanna Gardner-Fernandez who is accused of hiring a hitman to gun down her ex-husband in front of his two-year-old daughter
Microsoft executive Jared Brigedan was shot down in front of his two-year-old daughter on February 16
She was taken to Benton County jail before being extradited to Florida to face the charges.
Lawyers for the accused mom tried to fight the extradition after Florida State Attorney Melissa Nelson stated that she will be seeking the death penalty.
She was arrested a year and a half after the father-of-four was killed execution style just minutes from his ex-wife’s home in what police described as an ‘ambush’ and ‘targeted’ attack.
At the time, Bridegan was living in St. Augustine, Florida in a $780,000 home with his new wife and children. He would regularly drive up to Jacksonville to visit the twins he shared with Gardner-Fernandez.
He had just dropped the children off at their mother’s house on February 16 when he was lured from his car by a tire that had been placed in his path, police believe.
He was gunned down next to his Vauxhall Atlas while his two-year-old daughter Bexley was in the back seat, narrowly escaping with her life.
It is thought that Fernandez-Saldana’s former tenant Henry Tenon, 62, acted as the gunman in the killing. He confessed to the plot after being arrested for an unrelated crime.
Just five weeks after the killing, the accused couple took an all inclusive vacation at Port St Lucie. Snaps from the break show them laughing and pulling silly faces at the camera.
Gardner-Fernandez has been accused of orchestrating the murder along with her husband Mario Fernandez-Saldana, 35
Gardner-Fernandez was pictured joking around on holiday in Port St Lucie just five weeks after he ex-husband was murdered
Mario Fernandez-Soldana, 35, (left) is also facing charges along with suspected gunman Henry Tenon, 62
At the time of the murder the former spouses were locked in an acrimonious custody battle which had been raging since their divorce in 2015 and centered on their ten-year-old twins Abby and Liam.
Gardner-Fernandez remarried in 2018 with sources reporting that she became ‘wilder and wilder’ as their relationship progressed.
One tattoo-shop employee recalled their shock when she came in and asked for a genital piercing.
Fernandez-Soldana’s presence in his children’s lives was also a worry to Bridegan, according to those who know the family.
The father was described as a ‘devout’ Mormon who was working as a software developer for Microsoft. His widow Kristen has said she will support the death penalty if his ex-wife is convicted.
Both of the accused couple have pleaded not guilty to the charges and are due to stand trial.
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