The Greenbelt Police Department has revealed that Bettie Jenifer, the murdered wife of Ghanaian actor, Chris Attoh, was legally married to a drug dealer.
According to the police, Bettie was still legally married to 47-year-old Kedrick Jenifer, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for importing large amounts of cocaine into Baltimore from Texas.
Kedrick ran a drug trafficking organization that distributed at least 450kg of cocaine in Baltimore and Woodbridge, Virginia.
The drug lord and Bettie were not legally divorced before she married Chris Attoh in October 2018.
Court records show that Kedrick Jenifer filed for divorce on April 9, 2019. Bettie Jenifer then filed for divorce six days later.
Bettie was walking to her car on Friday when a man armed with a handgun approached her before shooting her in the head.
The shooting reportedly took place in the parking lot of a Maryland office building.
Police described the suspect as “a black male with a thick build and black hair, wearing a dark shirt and pants.”
The Greenbelt Police Department said that the assailant fled in a vehicle after shooting her.
