Dad of 4, Microsoft Executive, Dead After Neighborhood Ambush
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Jared Bridegan, 33, drops his twins off at the home of his ex-wife, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez. Bridegan is with his 2-year-daughter as he drives home. On their way home, Bridegan stops to remove a tire from the middle of the road. There's no room to drive around it.
That's when the Microsoft executive is shot and killed by an unknown assailant. The little girl, Bexley, is reportedly in the car for several minutes as her father dies. Bridegan has been in lengthy custody and alimony disputes with his former wife and reportedly she has now hired a high-powered criminal defense attorney.
Jacksonville Beach Police Department has not named Gardner-Fernandez a suspect in connection with the case and Gardner-Fernandez maintains her innocence. In fact, no one has been named a person of interest, and Bridegan's murder remains unsolved.
According to Gardner-Fernandez's attorney, his services are needed “for the purpose of seeing if steps could be taken to protect her young twins from any publicity surrounding this tragic event.”
Joining Nancy Grace Today:
- Kathleen Murphy - Family Attorney (North Carolina), NCDomesticlaw.com, Twitter: @RalDivorceLaw,
- Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta GA, AngelaArnoldMD.com, Expert in the Treatment of Pregnant/Postpartum Women, Former Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Obstetrics and Gynecology: Emory University, Former Medical Director of The Psychiatric Ob-Gyn Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital
- Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet", Featured on "The Piketon Massacre: Return to Pike County" on iHeartRadio
- Ray Caputo - Reporter (Orlando, FL)
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| 0:00.0 | What does a shadowy figure seemingly caught on home surveillance video have to do with |
| 0:20.9 | a young dad of four being shot dead? |
| 0:26.3 | On the road, one of his children in the car, when he innocently gets out of the car |
| 0:32.0 | to pick up a spare tire that was left in the road. |
| 0:38.2 | How or do the two of these connect? |
| 0:43.2 | And how did that tire get in the middle of the road? |
| 0:48.3 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:49.4 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM 111. |
| 0:55.4 | Let's take it off with our friend, WJXT News 4. |
| 0:59.9 | Bizarre and frightening twisted the murder of a local father four two months ago. |
| 1:04.8 | The widow of Jerry Briteigan sent us this video showing what she believes is a suspicious |
| 1:09.8 | person on her property about a week after her husband's slain. |
| 1:15.5 | Briteigan was driving home from his ex-wife's house in Jacksonville Beach two months ago. |
| 1:19.4 | When police said he stopped in the road to remove a tire. |
| 1:23.0 | And that's when somebody shot him multiple times with his two-year-old daughter in the |
| 1:27.1 | backseat of his SUV. |
| 1:28.6 | News4j actually brought a big McElucci. |
| 1:30.5 | He shows us more of that video and spoke with Briteigan's widow. |
| 1:35.1 | Take a look for yourself. |
| 1:36.5 | This is video from the Briteigan's Nockity Driveway. |
| 1:40.0 | It was recorded around 7.15 pm on February 24. |
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