Police say arrest in case Microsoft exec shoots multiple times ‘imminent’

Authorities have warned that an arrest in the brutal murder of a Microsoft executive is “imminent,” and his ex-wife is suspected of wanting to “shut him up.”

Jared Bridegan, 33, was shot multiple times in front of his daughter Bexley in Florida last year, and his ex-wife Shanna Gardener-Fernández and her second husband, Mario Fernández, remain suspects in his murder.

Law enforcement sources now say they hope to make an arrest in the case as soon as Wednesday.

The father-of-four divorced Gardener-Fernandez, 35, in 2016 after she reportedly had an affair and their relationship soured.

His ex-wife Shanna Gardener-Fernandez, pictured, and her second husband, Mario Fernandez, remain suspects in his murder and moved with their twins to West Richland, Washington.

Court files revealed that the couple had been arguing for years before he was murdered while leaving behind 10-year-old twins, Abby and Liam, whom he shared with Gardener-Fernandez.

Bridegan dropped the kids off at her ex’s house in Florida, before beginning her drive home with her two-year-old daughter from her second marriage in the back of the car.

He stopped to remove a tire left in the middle of the road before being shot multiple times, which detectives believed was a ploy to get him out of the car and ambush him.

Law enforcement sources told Fox News that Gardener-Fernandez remains a suspect in the murder and has since moved from Florida to West Richland in Washington with her twins.

Her second husband didn’t make the 2,800-mile move with the family to a $1 million, six-bedroom, four-bathroom home, but he remains a suspect in the shooting.

Gardener-Fernandez declined to comment on the development of the case, before heading out shopping in her white Tesla.

Bridegan dropped the kids off at her ex’s house in Florida before beginning her drive home with her two-year-old daughter from her second marriage in the back of the car.

Fernandez and her new husband, Mario (pictured right), retained attorney Henry Coxe III, a former president of the Florida Bar who specializes in federal and state criminal matters.

Pictured: Jared and his second wife, Kirsten, the twins and their two daughters Brexley, now 3, and London, now 1, with their 10-year-old twins from their first marriage.

Jared and Kirsten met on a dating app when she lived in North Carolina and he lived in Florida.

She has always denied having an affair, but admitted last year that she asked a tattoo parlor employee if he knew anyone who could ‘shut up’ her ex-husband.

Bridegan expressed doubts about Shanna’s new husband, Mario Fernandez, 33.

However, she denied it was a real threat, saying it was just things people say during “bitter divorces.”

She said: “Our relationship was quite complicated and it continued to be quite complicated.”

The couple retained high-powered criminal defense attorney Henry Coxe III, who declined to comment on the possible arrest.

Bridegan’s second wife, Kirsten, with whom he has two daughters, said she was “shocked” by the long-distance move.

She said her children, London, 1, and Bexley, now 3, have ‘lost their siblings’ and she has lost her ‘stepchildren’.

Kirsten added: ‘It’s been a further loss. In addition to losing Jared, my children have lost their siblings.

I have lost my stepsons. I have been trying for months and months to make contact and have gotten nowhere.

Kirsten held a memorial service for her late husband in March, which was not attended by Fernandez or her twins, Abby and Liam.

Her second husband didn’t make the 2,800-mile move with the family to a $1 million six-bed, four-bath home, but he remains a suspect in the shooting.

In now-deleted blog posts obtained by DailyMail.com, Bridegan’s former mother-in-law, Shelli Gardner, 60, initially claimed Shanna “and everyone who knows her” was not invited to the funeral.

“First the twins lost their father, then they were completely cut off from their own sisters and now they’re being taken away from school, friends, sports teams… that’s what worries me.”

The Microsoft executive’s wife said she fears her stepchildren will be “cut off” from the rest of her family after being removed from their private school in Jacksonville Beach.

Kirsten said her daughter Bexley has “good days where she’s happy”, adding: “But it’s going to be a lifetime for her to process those feelings and the trauma of what happened.”