Florida Jury Deliberates in Alleged Murder-for-Hire Killing of Microsoft Manager
A Florida jury is deliberating in the alleged murder-for-hire killing of Jared Bridegan, a Microsoft design manager who was shot four years ago after getting out of his SUV to remove a tire from a road in Jacksonville Beach.
The attack stumped police for months as they struggled to understand why someone with no apparent enemies would be killed while his daughter sat nearby in her car seat.
Prosecutors believe he was killed over a longstanding joint custody dispute with his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, and other parenting issues involving their twins.
The alleged gunman, Henry Tenon, had no personal connection to Bridegan but was a former tenant at the rental property of Mario Fernandez Saldana, who is married to Gardner. Jurors saw three checks totaling $10,000 written to Tenon after the homicide, marked as payments for handyman work and a business idea.