Convicted felon Henry Tenon is arrested for the murder of Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan

Police have arrested a 61-year-old convicted felon in connection with the slaying of Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan, who was shot and killed while picking up a tire from the middle of the road in front of his daughter last year.

Henry Tenon is in custody on charges of second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the February 16 murder of Bridegan.

His arrest warrant is sealed, so many of the details surrounding the case remain unclear. However, police said at a news conference on Wednesday that he did not act alone and that they are continuing to investigate.

Tenon rented his house to Mario Fernandez, the new husband of Bridegan’s ex-wife, Shanna.

The couple sold the house in October 2022, eight months after the murder, for $174,000.

Jared Bridegan, 33, was shot multiple times in front of his daughter Bexley in Florida last year.

According to sheriff’s records, Tenon was arrested in August on unrelated weapons charges. Tomorrow he will appear before a judge on murder charges.

“We know that Henry Tenon did not act alone,” State’s Attorney Melissa Nelson said at a news conference today.

Bridegan was killed on February 16, 2022, while driving from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to St. Augustine, after leaving his nine-year-old twins with their mother. His two-year-old daughter, Bexley, was in the car at the time.

Tenon faces life in prison on second-degree murder charges. Prosecutors announced today that the case would go to a grand jury and that they expect it to be elevated to a first-degree murder charge.

In addition to conspiracy to commit murder and second-degree murder, Tenon has been charged with child abuse. It stems from the fact that Bridegan’s two-year-old daughter was in the vehicle when he was killed.

Tenon was arrested last August by the same police department on charges of possessing a weapon despite being a convicted felon and driving without a license.

His previous offenses include serious traffic violations, such as driving with a license suspended multiple times, along with misdemeanor charges of assault and domestic violence.

His long arrest record dates back to the mid-1990s.

Jared was ambushed by his killer, who placed a tire in the middle of the road to make sure he stopped, got out of the car, and walked there.

His ex-wife Shanna Gardener-Fernandez and her second husband Mario Fernandez remain suspects in his murder.

The Microsoft executive was found 3.5 kilometers from Shanna’s home after dropping off the children on February 16. He was on a quiet street, where there were no security cameras.

Jared was shot and killed on a quiet, tree-lined stretch of road in Jacksonville Beach on February 16. It is believed that no cameras caught the murder.

The murder was planned to occur on a stretch of residential street where there were no surveillance cameras or Ring doorbell cameras.

Bridegan and her ex, 35, divorced in 2016 but were still arguing over finances and custody at the time of her death.

For the past year, his widow, Kirsten Bridegan, has been told to keep quiet about who she thought might have killed him.

She did not allow her twins to attend the Bridegan memorial service held by her family, and instead arranged her own send-off for him.

Kirsten, Bridegan’s widow, told DailyMail.com in an interview last April that she “had no enemies, for the most part”.

After he died, Shanna and her new partner, Mario Fernandez, 33, moved across the country from Florida to Washington state.

It is unclear how she and Mario met. He was previously reported to the police for animal abuse, since he shot and killed a cat with a compressed air gun.

DailyMail.com tracked down the couple in the months after Jared’s death.

Shanna, now covered in tattoos, was stern, declining to comment on the case.

Police are looking for this 2004-2008 Ford F150 pickup which they believe may have been involved in the murder.

Jared, Kirsten, the twins and their two daughters Brexley, two, and London, seven months. Kirsten says that she wants to know who killed her husband so she can explain her death to her children.

Last April, Kirsten, Jared’s second wife, did not want to know if there was a problem between Jared and his ex-wife, who has remarried and runs a local bakery business.

“I definitely don’t feel like this is the time or place to talk about someone else’s relationship. I know what my relationship with him was like and I miss that.

‘My husband was a man well loved by most of the people in his life. He went out of his way for friends, neighbors, children.

“Whoever did this, whoever is behind this, is just evil and disgusting and I hope we can find him and put him behind bars, if he doesn’t hurt us or anyone else in the future,” he said.

He added that “for the most part,” he had no enemies. They had been married for four years and met on a dating app.

It has since been claimed that the marriage ended when Shanna had an affair with her personal trainer.

She denied that claim, but the coach says their relationship turned romantic.

Seven years before her death, in 2015, she also asked someone at a local tattoo parlor if they knew anyone who would help her “shut up her husband.”

She insisted that it was a joke and that he did not mean to threaten her.