California mom begged for help before ex gunned her down in front of their 4-year-old son: DA

More than 2 years aft a California mother's hopeless 911 telephone ended with her 4-year-old lad witnessing her killing, the begetter prosecutors said carried retired the execution volition walk decades down bars.

Jeffery Kendall, 39, was sentenced Monday to 50 years to beingness successful situation for murdering 30-year-old Brittany Elizabeth Ligdis conscionable 10 days aft she ended their relationship, according to the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office.

A assemblage recovered Kendall blameworthy successful May of first-degree execution and kid endangerment for placing the couple’s young lad successful a concern that threatened his safety.

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Booking photograph of Jeffery Kendall pursuing his apprehension successful the Brittany Ligdis execution case. (KTVU)

Prosecutors said Ligdis called 911 connected the greeting of Feb. 16, 2024, aft Kendall broke into her Pinole location portion she hid successful a laundry country with their 4-year-old son.

About 90 seconds into the call, Kendall entered the room.

"Let spell of me," Ligdis pleaded, according to the territory attorney’s office. "You're scaring him."

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Law enforcement officers spot Jeffery Kendall successful handcuffs pursuing his apprehension successful Santa Cruz, California. (California Highway Patrol)

Moments later, she screamed, "Stop it," earlier Kendall changeable her successful the head, prosecutors said.

The couple’s lad cried out, "Momma," and fled the country portion Kendall ran from the home. Responding officers recovered Ligdis dormant from a gunshot coiled to the head.

Deputy District Attorney Tylyn Wells described the sidesplitting arsenic "an execution successful beforehand of a 4-year-old child" and argued it was not the effect of "a intelligence break," according to the territory attorney’s office.

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A instrumentality enforcement serviceman escorts Jeffery Kendall done a constabulary installation aft his arrest. (California Highway Patrol via FOX 2 San Francisco)

Instead, Wells said the execution reflected a signifier often seen successful home unit cases, wherever the information escalates aft a unfortunate decides to leave.

Wells asked the tribunal to enforce a sentencing enhancement that accrued Kendall’s punishment to 50 years to life.

Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Glenn Kim called the lawsuit "one of the astir difficult" helium had experienced earlier imposing 2 consecutive presumption of 25 years to life.

Kim besides barred Kendall from contacting his son, with constricted exceptions taxable to tribunal approval, until November 2035, erstwhile the lad turns 16.

Separately, Judge Kim convicted Kendall of illegally possessing a 3D-printed semi-automatic pistol and determined that aggregate factors supported a harsher sentence.

One twelvemonth aft Brittany Ligdis' death, her parent shared an affectional video urging household and friends to retrieve her daughter's beingness alternatively than the unit that ended it.

Brittany Ligdis smiles portion holding her young lad successful a household photograph taken earlier her death. (KTVU)

"I privation this to beryllium a time to retrieve Brittany, to memorialize her, the astonishing idiosyncratic she was," she said. "Think of her — each the things we miss astir her, her kiss, her hug. I'll miss everything myself. I volition emotion her forever."

Kendall remains successful region jailhouse awaiting transportation to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

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The Pinole Police Department told Fox News Digital it had nary remark connected Kendall's sentencing.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for further comment.