Ex-wife of killed Microsoft exec ‘asked tattoo shop worker if he knew anyone who

The ex-wife of a Microsoft exec who was shot and killed in front of his two-year-old daughter allegedly asked a tattoo shop worker if she knew anyone who could ‘shut him up’ after she got her genitals pierced at his shop.

Shanna Fernandez, 35, got the piercing at a Florida tattoo parlor in 2015 after divorcing husband Jared Bridegan, 33, but while the pair were still living together.

An employee of the tattoo parlor, who said he and Fernandez became friends after the piercing, said she brought it up at dinner at a Jacksonville restaurant called the Flying Iguana. 

‘She had been talking to us about her divorce, and she told us her life could just be better if he could just “shut up” and asked us if we knew anybody that could “shut him up,”‘ the employee, who wanted to stay anonymous, said. 

‘I did not take it at the time as anything nefarious,’ he added, according to Fox News. ‘In hindsight, I can see how that can be taken differently now.’

Detectives attempting to find answers to the case interviewed the worker last week, who said Fernandez complained that Bridegan was ‘trying to take all of her money.’

He added that he was a little surprised that Fernandez, who looked ‘like a regular mother’, got the genital piercing on her first day visiting the shop, but became wilder and wilder as she returned.  

‘She went from this goody two shoes girl to this wild lady,’ he said. ‘I just remember thinking, well, this is a changed woman.’

Shanna Fernandez, 35,  the ex-wife of a Microsoft exec who was shot and killed in front of his two-year-old daughter allegedly asked a tattoo shop worker if she knew anyone who could ‘shut him up’ while she was getting her vagina pierced

Police have not yet found a suspect or a potential motive for killing the father-of-four – a $25,000 reward has been offered for information. He is pictured with his seven-month-old daughter and nine-year-old twins

An employee of the tattoo parlor, who said he and Fernandez became friends after the piercing, said she brought it up at a dinner at a Jacksonville restaurant called the Flying Iguana

Fernandez and her new husband, Mario, last week hired attorney Henry Coxe III, the former president of the Florida Bar who specializes in federal and state criminal matters, as the murder of her ex-husband remains unsolved. 

Coxe told Fox News on Tuesday that he was retained by the Jacksonville Beach couple ‘for the purpose of seeing if steps could be taken to protect her young twins from any publicity surrounding this tragic event.

‘As for any other reason for the family to have or need counsel, whether it be myself or anyone else, there is none,’ he added. 

The legal move comes as Fernandez and Bridegan’s relationship has been heavily scrutinized by investigators after the father-of-four was gunned down on February 16, with new details continuing to emerge about the couple’s messy split. 

A friend of the couple told Fox that Bridegan and Fernandez’s relationship started out lovingly, but finances were always at play in the background. 

Fernandez and her new husband, Mario (pictured right), last week hired attorney Henry Coxe III, the former president of the Florida Bar who specializes in federal and state criminal matters, as the murder of her ex-husband remains unsolved 

Pictured: Jared and his second wife, Kirsten, the twins and their two daughters Brexley, two, and London, seven-months. Kirsten says she wants to find out who killed her husband to be able to explain his death to his children 

Jared’s two-year-old daughter Brexley was in the car when he was murdered. She still asks her mother about ‘the boom’ – which is how she refers to the gunshots she heard

Fernandez – the daughter of Sterling and Shelli Gardner, who co-founded the Utah-based Stampin’ Up! paper crafts company – allegedly wooed Bridegan in 2009 with the promise of a luxury from her parent’s $100million business. 

‘It was like she was saying, “Look what my lifestyle is like, I can fly you all over, my parents pay for everything,”‘ the friend told Fox.

By 2015, the couple had moved to Bridegan’s native Jacksonville Beach with their twins, Abby and Liam, to accommodate Liam’s heart condition that required him to live at sea level. 

That’s when the marriage broke apart and Fernandez filed for a divorce, saying their marriage was ‘irretrievably broken,’ according to court documents. 

During the proceedings, Fernandez demanded exclusive occupancy of the family’s home and custody of the twins, accusing their dad of threatening to withdraw cash from their children’s trust funds for his own use, Fox reported. 

Bridegan told the court that he deserved custody, alimony and child support support payments and ownership of the home given that she had the means to live elsewhere. 

He also accused her of spying hon him by hiding baby monitors in the twins’ bedroom, one under Abby’s dresser and another under Liam’s bed, as well as attaching a…