The State Attorney’s Office said it will announce “a significant development” on Thursday afternoon in the investigation into the February 2022 murder of Jared Bridegan.
State Attorney Melissa Nelson, Jacksonville Beach Police Department Chief Gene Paul Smith, and ATF Special Agent Bob Bryson will hold a news conference on the development at 1:15 p.m.Bridegan was gunned down Feb. 16, 2022, in Jacksonville Beach after taking his twins he shared with ex-wife Shanna Gardner Fernandez, and his then-2-year-old Bexley, his daughter with wife Kirsten Bridegan, to dinner.
Jacksonville Beach Police Chief Gene Paul Smith said the “the tire was purposely placed there to make him stop which he did.”“Tragically he began to exit his vehicle to move the tire and he was gunned down in cold blood,” Smith said. So far, two people have been arrested in a murder-for-hire plot to kill Bridegan, a St. Johns County father of 4.Mario Fernandez Saldana was arrested in March on charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, child abuse, and solicitation to commit a capital felony. Fernandez Saldana is the current husband of Gardner Fernandez.
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