Jared Bridegan murder
Florida investigators announce arrest in deadly ambush of Microsoft executive. (WFOX)
The Florida man accused of murdering Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan last February appeared in court on Thursday in connection with the newly announced charges.
Henry Tenon, 61, faced a judge in a Duval County courtroom on Thursday morning. He was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree murder, felony child abuse and accessory after the fact to a capital felony.
He was ordered held without bond for the most serious charge, second-degree murder, according to local news station News4Jax. He is due to be arraigned on Feb. 16, the date that marks one year since Bridegan was executed.
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Jared and Kirsten Bridegan with their daughter, Bexley. Jared Bridegan was gunned down Feb. 16 in north Florida.
(Courtesy: Kirsten Bridegan)
Jacksonville Beach Police Department Chief Gene Paul Smith and Melissa Nelson, State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District, announced the break in the case during a Wednesday press conference.
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A side by side of Kirsten Bridegan, Jared Bridegan’s widow, and Henry Tenon, 61, who was accused of killing Jared Bridegan.
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“We know that Henry Tenon did not act alone,” Nelson said at the time.
Bridegan, 33, was gunned down in front of one of his young children on Feb. 16, 2022, after dropping off his twins whom he shared with his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez, at her Jacksonville Beach home. He was lured from the car by a tire placed in the middle of the one-way road.
A family portrait of Jared and Kirsten Bridegan.
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“That tire was purposely placed there to make him stop,” Smith told reporters. “He was gunned down in cold blood.”
Investigators did not disclose the evidence that allegedly links Tenon to the slaying, but his most recent address has a surprising connection to Gardner-Fernandez. Tenon lived at 5239 Potomac Ave. in Jacksonville, which was owned by Gardner-Fernandez’s second husband, Mario Fernandez, at the time of the murder.
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General view of the home at 5239 Potomac Avenue in Jacksonville, Florida, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. The home was rented by Henry Tenon in February 2022, when Jared Bridegan was killed. Tenon has been charged in connection with the murder of Bridegan, the ex-husband of Shanna Gardner-Fernandez. Tenon rented the property from Gardner-Fernandez’s second husband at the time of the murder.
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Fernandez purchased the rental property in 2017 and sold it in October 2022, public records show. Tenon appears to have rented the home directly from Fernandez.
Gardner-Fernandez and Fernandez remain suspects in the crimes, a law enforcement source told Fox News Digital.
Kirsten and Jared Bridegan at their wedding in 2017. Jared Bridegan was gunned down Feb. 16, 2022, in an upscale suburb of Florida.
(Courtesy: Kirsten Bridegan)
Tenon, who has prior convictions for burglary, misdemeanor battery and traffic offenses, was arrested Aug. 18 on unrelated charges of weapon possession by a convicted felon, driving with a suspended license and speeding, jail records show.
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Shanna Gardner-Fernandez and her husband Mario Fernandez pose in a car. Her ex-husband, Jared Bridegan, was fatally gunned down Feb. 16, 2022.
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He has been locked up since at the James I. Montgomery Correctional Center, where he was served with an arrest warrant for Bridegan’s murder Wednesday morning.
