Jared Galen Bridegan (June 29, 1988 – February 16, 2022) was a senior design manager at Microsoft. He worked from Jacksonville, Florida, where he was shot and killed in February 2022.
Early life and education[]
Bridegan was born to Gaylord and JoAnn Bridegan in Warrensburg, Missouri. He moved with his family to Jacksonville, Florida at a young age and graduated in 2007 from the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, a magnet school in the area. In 2014, he received a B.S. in digital media with an emphasis in cinema production from Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.[1]
Bridegan married Shanna Gardner in April 2010 and they had twins. However, they divorced in 2015 and Gardner later married Mario Fernandez.[2][3] Bridegan met his second wife Kirsten through a dating app; they married in 2017 and had two children.[4]
Career[]
Bridegan was first hired in 2015 to become a senior UX (user experience) designer at Canopy, director of UX at Web.com, and later became the chief technology officer at Clean Simple Eats. He was most recently serving as a senior design manager at Microsoft beginning in October 2017.[1]
Death and murder investigation[]
On February 16, 2022, Bridegan was gunned down after dropping off his two older children with ex-wife Shanna Gardner-Fernandez. He was shot and killed as he tried to move a car tire that had been left on a residential road nearby. His two-year old daughter Bexley, who witnessed the incident, stated "Boom boom boom, Daddy on the ground." The Jacksonville Beach Police Department opened a murder investigation as Bridegan had been described as "the last person to have any enemies." A search was initiated for a 2004 to 2008 Ford F-150 pickup truck that was recorded fleeing the scene.[2]
On January 25, 2023, Jacksonville Beach Police Department chief Gene Paul Smith announced that Henry Tenon had been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, second-degree murder, accessory after the fact to a capital felony, and child abuse. Tenon was already in custody since August 2022 on an unrelated charge. He had been renting a house owned by Mario Fernandez at the time of the murder. Mario Fernandez and Shanna Gardner-Fernandez are reportedly considered suspects in connection with the murder case.[5][6] They have retained high-profile criminal defense lawyer Henry Coxe III.[7]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jared Bridegan Obituary (1988-2022), St. John's Family Funeral Home & Crematory, Legacy. 2022-02-26.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Mystery Behind the Brazen Execution of a Microsoft Boss by Pilar Melendez, The Daily Beast. 2022-07-31.
- ↑ Who is Jared Bridegan’s ex-wife, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez? by Kevin Quinitchett, The U.S. Sun. 2023-01-25.
- ↑ Ex-wife of murdered Microsoft exec flashes an 'I'm fine. Everything is fine' T-shirt while playing with her kids in the same Florida park as the vigil she skipped out on held by his widow the following day by Laura Collins, Daily Mail. 2022-04-22.
- ↑ Florida police, state attorney announce arrest in murder of Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan by Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News. 2023-01-25.
- ↑ Suspect arrested in ambush murder of Jared Bridegan in Jacksonville Beach ‘did not act alone,’ state attorney says by Vic Micolucci and Renee Beninate, News4JAX. 2023-01-25.
- ↑ Florida widow of slain Microsoft exec calls out his ex-wife after suspect's arrest by Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News. 2023-01-26.
External links[]
- Bridegan Foundation official website
- Justice for Jared B at Facebook
- Justice for Jared B at Instagram
- Memorial Fund for Jared Bridegan at GoFundMe
- Jared Galen Bridegan at St. Johns Family Funeral Home
- Interview With Web.com UX Designer Jared Bridegan at Web.com (2019-06-13)
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