JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Court TV) — Investigators say there were two people at the scene when a Microsoft executive was shot and killed, but only one has been identified.
Mario Fernandez Saldana sits in court on Aug. 18, 2026. (Court TV)
Jared Bridegan, 33, was shot and killed after dropping his two oldest children off at his ex-wife’s home following the weekly “date night” he had with the kids. He was driving home with the 2-year-old daughter he shared with his second wife when he was forced to stop because there was a tire in the road blocking his path. Prosecutors have said that tire was a trap placed there to lure Bridegan to his death.
Three people have been charged in what prosecutors have said was a murder-for-hire targeting the victim. Bridegan’s ex-wife, Shanna Gardner, 39, and her new husband, Mario Fernandez Saldana, 38, are accused of paying a tenant at one of their rental properties, Henry Tenon, to kill the victim. Fernandez is the first of the group to stand trial.
On Tuesday, investigators testified to their search for information after Bridegan’s death. He had been killed along a dark and quiet stretch of roadway, and finding video that showed what happened was difficult. Jacksonville Beach Police Cpl. Brian Wallace testified that a nearby school’s surveillance cameras were out of order because of an earlier tropical storm. Eventually, detectives tracked down video that appeared to show a two-toned Ford F-150 driving in the area in the hour before the shooting and then speeding away from the area after. While they couldn’t make out a license plate number, detectives determined that it was an older-model vehicle with a blue top and gold bottom.
A two-toned Ford F-150 is visible in surveillance video. (Court TV)
Tracking the vehicle on surveillance videos in the hour before the shooting, investigators could clearly identify an item in the truck’s bed that appeared to be a tire. In videos after the shooting, the truck’s bed appeared empty.
Fernandez’s defense attorney, Jesse Dreicer, seized on Wallace’s testimony about the seconds before and after the shooting. In the video, the Ford F-150 drove down the street approximately 20 seconds ahead of Bridegan’s Volkswagen Atlas. Seconds after the shots were fired, the truck sped away, but the video also showed a figure running away from the scene.
Dreicer: “There are two people in the car. That’s for certain.”
Wallace: “That’s correct.”
Dreicer: “Because you can’t be the person running from the scene and the person driving away from the scene, correct?”
Prosecutors have not said who they believe was in the car with Tenon, who they identified as the suspected gunman on foot after the shooting. Dreicer emphasized that none of the surveillance video allegedly shows Fernandez.
The tire prosecutors say was used to lure Jared Bridegan to his death. (Court TV)
Investigators suspected Fernandez and Gardner’s involvement early on and investigated rental properties the couple owned and managed. At one property, they noticed a tire next to the garage. Testing revealed that the tire was made at the same manufacturing plant on the same date as the one allegedly used to lure Bridegan.
The F-150 — which investigators said they identified as registered to Tenon’s father — further linked Tenon to the case. Service records showed that Tenon brought the truck in for two new tires, but only had one removed from the vehicle.
Gardner’s trial is scheduled to begin as soon as her husband’s ends. Tenon’s trial date has not been set.
