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Shanna Fernandez ‘SPIED on [ex] Jared Bridegan,’ during acrimonious divorce, cops reveal – Ex-wife of Microsoft exec who was ambushed and killed in front of his toddler in suburban Florida hires top flight attorney

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Ex-wife of murdered Microsoft exec <strong><strong>Jared Bridegan<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <strong>who was gunned down February in front of his toddler daughter&comma; in affluent Florida neighborhood hires topflight attorney <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The legal retainer comes as as it&&num;8217&semi;s revealed that <strong><strong>Shanna Gardner-Fernandez<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <strong>she &&num;8216&semi;SPIED on him &lbrack;Bridegan&rsqb;&comma;&&num;8217&semi; during acrimonious divorce <strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Bridegan&comma; 33&comma; was shot dead February 16 <strong> in Jacksonville Beach<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong>&comma; <strong><strong>as his two-year-old daughter watched from a car seat<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>He was moving a tire obstructing the road in a Florida neighborhood when he was shot dead<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong><strong>Police believe the killing may have been targeted&comma; and said the assailant shot Bridegan from close range&comma; about four feet away <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong><strong><strong>&&num;8216&semi;It was specific&comma; &lbrack;Bridegan&rsqb; used this route all the time&period; Whoever &lbrack;killed him&rsqb; knew the route&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Jacksonville Beach Police said at the time <&sol;strong> <&sol;strong> <&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>His ex-wife <strong>Shanna Gardner-Fernandez<&sol;strong>&comma; 35&comma; has hired defense attorney Henry Coxe III&comma; the former president of the Florida Bar who specializes in federal and state criminal matters <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Coxe said he was retained by Fernandez and her husband to protect the privacy of her twins&nbsp&semi; as the murder case of their biological father remains unsolved<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Court records indicate Fernandez and Bridegan had been locked in a contentious court battle&comma; since their bitter divorce six years earlier&comma; in 2015 <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Bridegan had accused Fernandez have spying on him with wire taps in the children&&num;8217&semi;s room and in his car&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;362828&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Fernandez in her counter&comma; accused Bridegan of coaching their twins to make statements against her and keeping a breathing device away from their son when visiting her  <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Shanna-Fernandez-left-and-her-husband-Jared-Bridegan-with-their-children-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409742" width&equals;"850" height&equals;"592"&sol;><figcaption><strong><strong>Shanna Gardner-Fernandez<&sol;strong>&comma; seen &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; with her current husband Mario Fernandez &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; have hired an attorney to protect the privacy of her twins&comma; Abby and Liam seen &lbrack;in this blended family photo&rsqb;&comma; as the murder case of Jared Bridegan&comma; her ex-husband Brian and the twin&&num;8217&semi;s biological father&comma; remains unsolved<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The ex-wife of a Microsoft exec who was shot and killed in front of his two-year-old daughter has hired a criminal defense lawyer as it&&num;8217&semi;s revealed she allegedly &&num;8216&semi;spied on him&&num;8217&semi; during a bitter divorce&period; <br>Shanna<strong> <&sol;strong>Gardner-Fernandez&comma; 35&comma; and her new husband&comma; Mario&comma; have hired attorney Henry Coxe III&comma; the former president of the Florida Bar who specializes in federal and state criminal matters&comma; as the murder of her ex-husband&comma; Jared Bridegan&comma; remains unsolved&period; <strong> <&sol;strong><br>Coxe told <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;foxnews&period;com&sol;us&sol;florida-ex-wife-microsoft-executive-hired-lawyer" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Fox News<&sol;a> on Tuesday that he was retained by the Jacksonville Beach couple &&num;8216&semi;for the purpose of seeing if steps could be taken to protect her young twins from any publicity surrounding this tragic event&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;As for any other reason for the family to have or need counsel&comma; whether it be myself or anyone else&comma; there is none&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he added&period; <strong> <&sol;strong><br>The legal retainer appears to have been prompted by the intense scrutiny brought to bear on the marriage and post marriage relationship between the former couple after Bridegan&comma; a father of four was gunned down on February 16&comma; continues to to unearth details about the couple&&num;8217&semi;s messy split&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Shanna-Fernandez-1-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409746" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"1156"&sol;><figcaption><strong><strong>Shanna Gardner-Fernandez<&sol;strong>&comma; 35&comma; pictured&comma; has hired attorney Henry Coxe III&comma; the former president of the Florida Bar who specializes in federal and state criminal matters<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Coxe said he was retained by Fernandez and her current husband Mario to protect the privacy of her the children in their blended family&comma; twins Abby and Liam&comma; who she shares with her ex-husband and as long as his murder remains unsolved&period; <br>Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s wife&comma; Kirsten&comma; has is adamant she wants to find out who killed her husband to be able to explain his death to his children&period; The couple have two biological daughters Brexley&comma; two&comma; and London&comma; seven-months&period; Jared&&num;8217&semi;s two-year-old daughter Brexley was in the car when he was murdered&period; She still asks her mother about &&num;8216&semi;the boom&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; which is how she refers to the gunshots she heard <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Jared-Bridegan-4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409756"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Jared and Kirsten&comma; shared two biological daughters Brexley&comma; two&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb; and London&comma; seven-months &lbrack;left&rsqb;&period; Brexley who was in the car when her dad was murdered&comma; still asks her mother about &&num;8216&semi;the boom&&num;8217&semi; &&num;8211&semi; which is how she refers to the gunshots she heard<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Friends said Bridegan and Fernandez&&num;8217&semi;s relationship started out lovingly&comma; but finances were always at play in the background&period; <br>Shana Gardner-Fernandez&comma; who is the daughter of Sterling and Shelli Gardner&comma; co-founders of the Utah-based Stampin&&num;8217&semi; Up&excl; paper crafts company&comma; allegedly wooed Bridegan in 2009 with the promise of a luxury from her parent&&num;8217&semi;s &dollar;100 million business&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;It was like she was saying&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Look what my lifestyle is like&comma; I can fly you all over&comma; my parents pay for everything&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the friend said&period; <br>By 2015&comma; the couple had moved to Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s native Jacksonville Beach with their twins&comma; Abby and Liam&comma; to accommodate Liam&&num;8217&semi;s heart condition that required him to live at sea level&period; <br>That&&num;8217&semi;s when the marriage broke apart and Fernandez filed for a divorce&period; In the court docs&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s claiming their marriage was &&num;8216&semi;irretrievably broken&period;&&num;8217&semi;  <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Jared-Bridegan-his-wife-Kirsten-Bridegan-the-twins-Abby-and-Liam-and-daughters-Brexley-and-London-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409749" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"514"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Jared Bridegan and his wife&comma; Kirsten&comma; the twins and their two daughters Brexley&comma; two&comma; and London&comma; seven-months&period; Kirsten says she wants to find out who killed her husband to be able to explain his death to his children&period;&nbsp&semi;Shana Fernandez is the mother of the twins from their first marriage<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">During the proceedings&comma; Fernandez demanded exclusive occupancy of the families home and custody of the twins&period; She accused her estranged husband of threatening to convert funds from their children&&num;8217&semi;s trust funds for his own use&period;<br>Countering Bridegan testified that he deserved custody&comma; alimony and child support support payments and ownership of the home&comma; because his soon to be ex she had the means to live elsewhere&period; <br>He also accused her of spying on him by hiding baby monitors in the twin&&num;8217&semi;s bedroom&comma; one under Abby&&num;8217&semi;s dresser and another under Liam&&num;8217&semi;s bed&comma; as well as attaching a tracking device to his car&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;This is enough&excl;&excl;&excl; I should have every damn right on my own property to not constantly be under recording or monitoring by Shanna&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he wrote to his divorce lawyer on May 17&comma; 2015&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I want the flipping gates of Hell released on her for this&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Bridegan alleged that Fernandez had cancelled an important heart surgery appointment for their son in June 2015&comma; the final straw for the dad who had once tried to preserve his marriage&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Jared-Bridegan-and-Kirsten-Bridegan-the-twins-Abby-and-Liam-in-their-wedding-portrait-circa-2017&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409758" width&equals;"837" height&equals;"818"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Jared Bridegan and Kirsten Bridegan&comma; the twins &lbrack;Abby and Liam&rsqb;&comma; in their 2017 wedding portrait&period; The twins are from his first marriage to Shana<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Although their agreed to share custody in 2015&comma; the couple continue to fight in court for six years&comma; during which both of them got hitched to other people&period; <br>Bridegan went on to wed again&period; The now single Florida dad and Kirsten met on a dating app in 2017&comma; when she was living in North Carolina&period; They got married as he continued legal battles with his first wife Shana Gardner-Fernandez&period; <br>Bridegan and Kristen went on to have two children&comma; while Fernandez married Mario Fernandez a year later&period;&period; <br>During the on-going legal battle&comma; Fernandez filed her own set of accusations against Bridegan&comma; claiming in 2019 that he was coaching their children to make statements against her and recording the testimonials for court&comma; Fox reported&period;  <br>She demanded a social investigation to the matter&comma; which was denied&comma; and then in June 2021&comma; she filed another motion accusing her ex-husband of not letting her borrow a breathing machine for their son&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;The father apparently considers his vindictiveness toward the mother more important than protecting his son&&num;8217&semi;s health and life&comma;&&num;8217&semi; her attorney wrote in the filing&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Kirsten-Bridegan-and-one-of-her-daughters-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409761" width&equals;"832" height&equals;"540"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Kirsten told all gathered that she hopes to send a message and &&num;8216&semi;put pressure&&num;8217&semi; on those responsible for the February 16 shooting that took place just minutes from both the park and Shanna Fernandez&&num;8217&semi;s nearby home&period; The Microsoft executive and father-of-four was found 2&period;2miles from Shanna&&num;8217&semi;s home after dropping off the kids on February 16&period; It was on a quiet patch of road&comma; where there were no security cameras&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;image-17&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409768" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"1037"&sol;><figcaption><strong>After the <strong><strong> Feb <&sol;strong><&sol;strong>16 killing&comma; Jacksonville Beach Police released video stills of a dark Ford F-150 that they believe may have been involved<&sol;strong>&period; <strong>Bridegan was shot while he <strong>was moving a tire obstructing the road<&sol;strong><&sol;strong>&period; <strong><strong><strong>Cops believe the killing may have been targeted<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><br>The court awarded Fernandez &dollar;571 and exclusive ownership of the breathing device for her son four month before Bridegan would be murdered&period; <br>Bridegan had just dropped the twins back at his ex-wife&&num;8217&semi;s house on February 16 at around 7&period;30pm and was taking his regular route home when he stopped to move a tire placed in the road – a trap&comma; police think&comma; set to lure him out of his vehicle&period;<br>He was shot multiple times at close range next to the driver&&num;8217&semi;s door of his Volkswagen Atlas&period; Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s two-year-old daughter&comma; Bexley&comma; was in the car&comma; strapped in her child-seat&period;<br>The brutal crime sent shockwaves through the quiet Florida beach town with Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s friends and family expressing profound shock that anyone should have targeted the man whom&comma; they say&comma; had no enemies&period;<br>The devout Mormon tech executive was&comma; according to his grieving widow&comma; a devoted and wonderful father to twins Liam and Abbie&comma; daughter Bexley and their youngest daughter London&comma; just seven months old&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Kirsten-Bridegan-at-vigil-for-husband-Jared-Bridegan-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409763" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"544"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Kirsten Bridegan held a memorial service for her late husband in near scene of crime which was not attended by Fernandez&comma; nor their twins&comma; Abby and Liam&period; In now deleted blog posts Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s former mother-in-law&comma; Shelli Gardner&comma; 60&comma; initially claimed that Shanna &&num;8216&semi;and everybody who knows her&&num;8217&semi; was &&num;8216&semi;uninvited&&num;8217&semi; from the funeral<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;06&sol;Jared-Bridegan-and-his-children-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-409770" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"459"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s ex-wife Shana Fernandez Fernandez and the twins &lbrack;seen here with their dad and sister&rsqb; did not attend his funeral and instead held a separate memorial service some weeks later<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Even the shared grief of death does not appear to have created a détente between the warring sides&period; Fernandez and the twins did not attend Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s funeral hosted by Kirsten and the victim&&num;8217&semi;s family&period; Instead they held a separate memorial service some weeks later&period; In now deleted blog posts Bridegan&&num;8217&semi;s former mother-in-law&comma; Shelli&comma; 60&comma; initially claimed that Fernandez &&num;8216&semi;and everybody who knows her&&num;8217&semi; was &&num;8216&semi;uninvited&&num;8217&semi; from the funeral&comma; adding that&comma; &&num;8216&semi; Shanna and the twins planned their own celebration of life&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>When comments were posted taking issue with this statement Gardner posted once more&comma; writing&comma; &&num;8216&semi;As everyone knows there are multiple sides to every story and I&&num;8217&semi;ve chosen not to share our side&comma; for the sake of everyone involved&comma; especially our children&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I would like to clarify a couple of points&period; Yes&comma; Kirsten offered to arrange to pick up Liam and Abby prior to the memorial service and then bring them back…but since not one person from Jared&&num;8217&semi;s family&comma; including his parents&comma; had reached out to Liam and Abby&comma; the twins didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to be without their mom&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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