The mugshot of the woman accused of gunning down her Microsoft executive ex in front of his 2-year-old daughter in Florida last year has been released.
Shanna Gardner-Fernandez, 36, was arrested in August at her $1 million home in Washington — five months after her second husband Mario Fernandez Saldana was shackled.
The pair are facing charges for allegedly planning the killing of Jared Bridegan, 33, who was shot execution-style in front of his daughter in Jacksonville Beach in February 2022.
Florida police released Gardner-Fernandez’s mugshot, which shows the mother of two, with her hair in braids, making a slight smirk as she stares directly at the camera.
She had originally been taken to Benton County Jail before she was extradited to the Sunshine State to face her charges.
Her lawyers attempted to fight the extradition Thursday after the state said it would seek the death penalty.
Gardner-Fernandez has been fighting her extradition since her arrest and continues to deny her involvement in the alleged murder-for-hire plot.
She appeared in front of a Duval County judge on Saturday and has been charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation to commit a capital felony, and child abuse, according to online records.
Authorities accused her of having Bridegan ambushed by Fernandez’s former tenant, Henry Tenon, while he stopped to move a tire out of the roadway.
The slain dad had dropped off the two children he shared with Garner-Fernandez right before he was murdered. They were embroiled in a custody battle at the time.
The father of four’s daughter Bexley, one of two kids he shared with his second wife Kirsten Bridegan, narrowly missed the gunfire and was left alone at the scene until a passerby called the police.
Shortly after Bridegan’s death, Gardner-Fernandez moved to Washington.
Bridegan and Gardner-Fernandez divorced in 2015, but their court war carried on until his murder seven years later.
Fernandez and Gardner-Fernandez pleaded not guilty to the allegations. Tenon pleaded guilty to charges related to Bridegan’s murder.