Man sentenced to probation after his newlywed wife recorded fight that ended with her being found dead near Busch Stadium

A newlywed prison guard was sentenced Tuesday to probation after his wife, also a corrections officer, 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.

"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."