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ST.LOUIS (AP) — A newlywed prison guard was sentenced Tuesday to probation after his wife recorded a fight that ended with her being found dead at the bottom of a parking garage near the stadium where the St. Louis Cardinals play.
Bradley Jenkins, of Taylorville, of Illinois, was initially charged with third-degree felony domestic assault after 27-year-old Allissa Martin’s 2019 death. Court documents say a video taken on Martin’s phone recorded Martin yelling at Jenkins to stop punching her in the face before she dropped the phone. Jenkins was a lieutenant for the Illinois Department of Corrections at the time.
But after a grand jury declined to indict him, he was recharged with a lesser count of misdemeanor assault. He pleaded guilty to that charge before he was sentenced, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Taylorville man sentenced to probation after wife recorded fight that ended with her found dead near Busch Stadium
very disappointing. hoping Allisa's family is more successful in their civil suit against him.
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"The recording showed her pointing the camera toward herself," Detective Mark West wrote in a probable cause statement at the time. "She then turned the camera toward this defendant and he was shown on camera. They were arguing."
She then dropped the phone. "Shortly after that, you hear her scream as she falls," West wrote.
When police arrived, Jenkins was straddling Martin's body and "appeared to be intoxicated," according to court documents. He was covered in blood, CBS affiliate KMOV reported.
Man sentenced to probation after his newlywed wife recorded fight that ended with her being found dead near Busch Stadium
ST. LOUIS — An Illinois man was sentenced to two years of probation after taking a plea deal on charges related to his wife's fatal fall from a downtown St. Louis parking garage in 2019.
Bradley Jenkins, 35, of Taylorville, pleaded guilty Tuesday in St. Louis Circuit Court to misdemeanor domestic assault, reduced from third-degree felony domestic assault. The plea deal cancels a jury trial that was scheduled for next week.
Man sentenced to probation in wife's fatal fall from St. Louis parking garage
What a tragedy. Can't understand why he wasn't charged with murder.
