2026年8月26日 美国东部时间下午3:44 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
一名被指控在佛罗里达州一条公路上策划枪杀微软设计主管的男子周三被判有罪，这起雇凶杀人案的动机源于受害者与其富有前妻之间激烈的子女抚养权纠纷。
四年前，贾里德·布里德根在杰克逊维尔海滩一条公路上下车清理路面上的一个轮胎时遭枪击。此案曾让警方困惑数月，他们难以理解为何这名看似没有仇家的人会在女儿坐在车内儿童安全座椅上时被杀害。
检方认为，他遇害是因为与前妻在双胞胎子女的抚养问题上持续存在矛盾。
据哥伦比亚广播公司下属电视台WJAX-TV报道，在陪审团近四小时的商议后，38岁的马里奥·费尔南德斯·萨尔达尼亚周三被判一级谋杀罪和雇凶杀人罪。他与布里德根的前妻香娜·加德纳结婚，加德纳的审判定于9月开始。
辩护律师詹姆斯·希尔（左）在其当事人被告马里奥·费尔南德斯·萨尔达尼亚2026年8月25日周二于佛罗里达州杰克逊维尔杜瓦尔县法院受审期间陪同其入场。道格·恩格尔/《佛罗里达时报联盟》 via 美联社 pooled pool photo
检方指出，布里德根是在一场“有针对性的伏击”中遇害的，这一阴谋是加德纳和萨尔达尼亚策划的，此前双方因宗教信仰和抚养双胞胎子女的方式持续了数年的婚后矛盾。案发时，受害者正带着2岁的女儿贝克斯利吃完晚餐后开车回家，同行的还有他的双胞胎子女。
“他手无寸铁、毫无防备、暴露在外、不堪一击。在2022年2月那冰冷的沥青路面上，他不可能知道，这场谋杀的策划者已经为他的死亡筹备了数月之久，”助理州检察官克里斯蒂娜·斯蒂夫勒在结案陈词中说道。
她此前曾告诉陪审员，加德纳不希望自己的孩子接触摩门教。
“他们为所有事情争吵……场面很难看，斤斤计较，双方都做得不好，”这名检察官在谈及两人的关系时说道。
辩护律师杰西·德赖瑟告诉陪审员，费尔南德斯·萨尔达尼亚没有杀害布里德根的动机。费尔南德斯·萨尔达尼亚和加德纳已经分居，案发后加德纳搬到了华盛顿州。
“他肯定没有从贾里德·布里德根的死亡中获得任何好处，”德赖瑟说道，并指出没有证词证明费尔南德斯·萨尔达尼亚曾对任何人说过布里德根“该死”。
贾里德·布里德根 杰克逊维尔警察局
涉案枪手亨利·特农与布里德根没有私人恩怨，但他曾是费尔南德斯·萨尔达尼亚在杰克逊维尔一处出租屋的前租户。陪审员看到了凶杀案发生后写给特农的三张总额1万美元的支票，标注为杂工工作和一个商业创意的报酬。
警方表示，在故意放在路面上的轮胎边缘检测到了特农的DNA。
65岁的特农最初认罪并同意指证费尔南德斯·萨尔达尼亚，但后来反悔了该协议，将于明年受审。
39岁的加德纳是犹他州手工艺公司Stampin’ Up!联合创始人的女儿。
布里德根在停车清理路面上的轮胎时被连开两枪。当时他刚在“约会之夜”用餐后将双胞胎子女送回加德纳家中。案发时，他与妻子克里斯滕·布里德根已婚，两人还有两个孩子。
克里斯滕·布里德根告诉陪审团，她丈夫与加德纳的离婚后关系“相当糟糕”，并补充说“完全没有信任可言”。
2022年，克里斯滕·布里德根创立了非营利组织布里德根基金会，“旨在让儿童在警局的经历不那么令人创伤和恐惧”，此前她的女儿曾在没有父母陪伴且缺乏幼儿基本用品的情况下在警局待了数小时。
Man convicted in murder of Microsoft exec in plot allegedly involving victim’s ex-wife
August 26, 2026 3:44 PM EDT / CBS/AP
A man accused of arranging the fatal shooting of a Microsoft design manager on a Florida road was convicted Wednesday in a murder-for-hire scheme fueled by a stormy child custody arrangement between the victim and his wealthy ex-wife.
Jared Bridegan was shot four years ago after he got out of his SUV to remove a tire from a road in Jacksonville Beach. The attack stumped police for months as they struggled to understand why someone with no apparent enemies would be killed while his daughter sat nearby in her car seat.
Prosecutors believe he was killed because of ongoing strife with his former wife over the parenting of their twins.
Mario Fernandez Saldana, 38, was convicted on Wednesday of first-degree murder and solicitation of murder after nearly four hours of jury deliberation, according to CBS affiliate WJAX-TV. He’s married to Bridegan’s former wife, Shanna Gardner, whose trial is set to start in September.
Defense attorney James Hill, left, walks in his client, defendant Mario Fernandez Saldana, during his trial on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida. Doug Engle/The Florida Times-Union via AP, Pool
Prosecutors argued that Bridegan was killed in a “targeted ambush” hatched by Gardner and Saldana, following years of post-marriage strife over religion and how to raise twin children. The victim was driving home with his 2-year-old daughter, Bexley, after having dinner with his twins.
Bridegan was “unarmed, unaware, exposed, vulnerable. He couldn’t have known, on that cold asphalt in February of 2022, the architects of his murder had been making preparations for his death for months,” Assistant State Attorney Christina Stifler said during closing arguments.
She previously told jurors that Gardner did not want her children involved with the Mormon church.
“They fought over everything … It was nasty. It was petty. It was not good on both sides,” the prosecutor said of the relationship.
Defense attorney Jesse Dreicer told jurors that Fernandez Saldana had no motive to have Bridegan killed. Fernandez Saldana and Gardner are estranged, and Gardner moved to Washington state after the killing.
“He certainly gained no benefit from the death of Jared Bridegan,” Dreicer said, noting there was no testimony that Fernandez Saldana told anyone that Bridegan “deserves to die.”
Jared Bridegan Jacksonville Police
The alleged gunman, Henry Tenon, had no personal connection to Bridegan, but he was a former tenant at Fernandez Saldana’s rental property in Jacksonville. Jurors saw three checks totaling $10,000 written to Tenon after the homicide, marked as payments for handyman work and a business idea.
Tenon’s DNA was identified on the rim of the tire that was intentionally placed in the road, police said.
Tenon, 65, initially pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Fernandez Saldana, but he later backed out of the deal and will stand trial next year.
Gardner, 39, is the daughter of the co-founder of Stampin’ Up!, an arts-and-crafts company based in Utah.
Bridegan was shot twice when he stopped his Volkswagen Atlas to remove a tire from the road. He had just returned the twins to Gardner’s home after a “date night” meal. At the time of his death, he was married to Kirsten Bridegan and they had two children.
Kirsten Bridegan told the jury that the post-divorce relationship between her husband and Gardner was “pretty terrible,” adding there was “absolutely no trust.”
In 2022, Kirsten Bridegan founded a nonprofit, the Bridegan Foundation, “to make children’s experiences at police stations a little less traumatic and scary” after her daughter spent hours at the police station without her parents or basic necessities for a toddler.
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