After getting her genitalia pierced at his shop, the ex-wife of a Microsoft executive who was shot and killed in front of his two-year-old daughter allegedly asked a tattoo artist if she knew someone who could ‘shut him up’
While still cohabitating with her ex-husband Jared Bridegan, 33, Shanna Fernandez, 35, underwent the piercing in a Florida tattoo parlor in 2015.
Fernandez brought up the piercing at dinner at the Flying Iguana in Jacksonville, according to a tattoo parlor employee who claimed he and Fernandez became friends following the piercing.
She had been discussing her divorce with us when she remarked that her life would be easier if he would just “shut up” and asked us if we knew anyone who could do so, according to the employee who wished to remain nameless.
According to Fox News, he continued, “I did not take that at the time as anything malicious.” I can now understand how that might be interpreted differently in retrospect.
The employee, who was questioned by detectives last week in an effort to learn more about the case, claimed that Fernandez had complained that Bridegan was “trying to take all of her money.”
He continued by saying he was a little taken aback by Fernandez, who appeared to be “just an ordinary mother,” getting the genital piercing on her first visit to the business but getting crazier and crazier each time she went back.
He said, “She went from being this goody two shoes girl to this wild lady.”
“Well, this is an altered woman,” I merely recollected thinking.
Given that Fernandez’s ex-murder husband is still unsolved, she and her new husband, Mario, last week hired Henry Coxe III, a former Florida Bar president who focuses on federal and state criminal problems.
According to Coxe, the Jacksonville Beach couple hired him on Tuesday “to investigate whether steps might be made to safeguard her baby twins from any exposure surrounding this horrible tragedy,” he said in an interview with Fox News.
There isn’t any other justification for the family to seek assistance from me or anyone else, he continued.
The legal action comes as new information regarding Fernandez and Bridegan’s contentious divorce continues to emerge, and police have been closely examining the couple’s relationship since the father-of-four was fatally shot on February 16.
According to a friend of the couple, although Bridegan and Fernandez’s relationship began romantically, money was always a factor in the background.
Bridegan was allegedly courted by Fernandez in 2009 with the promise of a luxury from her parent’s $100 million firm. Fernandez is the daughter of Sterling and Shelli Gardner, who co-founded the Utah-based Stampin’ Up! paper crafts company.
The buddy told Fox that it appeared as like she was bragging about her lifestyle by offering to fly her wherever she wanted to go and having her parents foot the bill.
In order to accommodate Liam’s heart issue, which required him to reside at sea level, the couple had relocated to Bridegan’s hometown of Jacksonville Beach with their twins, Abby and Liam, by 2015.
According to court filings, that is when the couple’s marriage fell apart, and Fernandez filed for divorce, claiming it was “irretrievably ruined.”
According to Fox, Fernandez claimed that her husband had threatened to take money from their children’s trust funds for his personal use and demanded sole possession of the family’s property and custody of the twins.
Given that she had the financial wherewithal to live abroad, Bridegan claimed in court that he deserved ownership of the home, custody, and payments for alimony and child support.
She was accused of spying on him by putting a baby monitor under Abby’s dresser and another under Liam’s bed in the room where the twins were sleeping, as well as by mounting a tracking device on his automobile.
“Enough now!” On May 17, 2015, he sent a letter to his divorce attorney stating, “I should have every damn right on my own property to not continuously be under surveillance or monitoring by Shanna.” I demand that she be subjected to the opening of the gates of Hell.
The last straw for the father who had previously attempted to save his marriage, according to Bridegan, was when Fernandez allegedly canceled an essential heart surgery appointment for their son in June 2015.
The couple settled their custody dispute in 2015, but they went back and forth in court for another six years, during which time both of them got married to other people.
While Fernandez married Mario in 2018, Bridegan married Kristen in 2017, with whom he shares two children.
In the ongoing legal dispute, Fernandez made her own allegations against Bridegan, claiming that he had been encouraging their kids to testify against her and recording their remarks for the court, Fox reported in 2019.
After being refused her request for a social inquiry into the incident, she filed a second application in June 2021 in which she accused her ex-husband of refusing to let her borrow a breathing machine for their son.
According to the lawsuit, her counsel, “The father evidently deems his vengeance toward the mother more essential than protecting his son’s health and life.”
Four months before to his death, the court ordered Jared to purchase her out of the small investment she had placed in the device.
Around 7.30 p.m. on February 16, Bridegan had just returned the twins to his ex-home wife’s and was traveling home on his usual route when he stopped to move a tire placed in the road, which police believe was a trap to tempt him out of his car.
Near the driver’s door of his Volkswagen Atlas, he was shot several times at close range. Bexley, Bridegan’s two-year-old daughter, was buckled up in her car seat and in the vehicle.
Bridegan’s friends and relatives expressed their profound disbelief that someone would attack the man who, according to them, had no enemies. The horrible crime sent shockwaves across the sleepy Florida beach community.
According to his sad widow, the devout Mormon software executive was a loving and dedicated father to their three children: twins Liam and Abbie, daughter Bexley, and their youngest daughter London, who was only seven months old.
Despite the tragedy, Fernandez and the twins arranged a different memorial service a few weeks later rather than going to his funeral.
Former mother-in-law Shelli, 60, of Bridegan initially asserted that Fernandez and “everyone who knows her” were “uninvited” from the burial in now-deleted blog posts that were obtained by DailyMail.com.
She stated, “Shanna and the twins arranged their own celebration of life when she (along with everyone who knew her) was refused admission to Jared’s burial ceremonies.”
Gardner responded once more to comments disputing this claim, writing, “As everyone knows, there are numerous sides to every story, and I’ve chosen not to disclose our side, for the sake of everyone concerned, including our children.
“I want to make a few things clear.” Kirsten did make the offer to make arrangements to pick up Liam and Abby before the memorial service and bring them back afterwards.
The twins didn’t want to be without their mother, but nobody from Jared’s family—not even his parents—had contacted Liam and Abby.