Now, new evidence released this week suggested his murder was not only planned, it was also rehearsed.

The estranged couple accused in what investigators describe as a murder-for-hire plot was back in court Friday -- exactly two years after the ambush killing of 33-year-old Jared Bridegan.

A new batch of evidence obtained by News4JAX on Thursday gives more details into the Jared Bridegan investigation and revealed that police identified a total of five people who were “likely involved” in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the death of the father of four.

Shanna Gardner and her estranged husband, Mario Fernandez, will be back inside a Duval County courtroom on Wednesday as they face charges in the murder-for-hire plot that investigators say left Gardner’s ex-husband, Jared Bridegan, dead.

The estranged husband and wife accused of orchestrating the ambush murder of Jared Bridegan in 2022 will be back in court Monday for back-to-back hearings.

Henry Tenon, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the conspiracy to kill Jared Bridegan has a pretrial hearing scheduled Monday in Duval County court.

The estranged husband and wife accused of orchestrating the ambush murder of Jared Bridegan in 2022 saw each other for the first time in over a year when they appeared back-to-back in court Friday.

The previously dark and wooded stretch of Jacksonville Beach where father of 4 Jared Bridegan was murdered in February 2022 now has bright streetlights to make it safer.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys are preparing for a legal showdown in the Jared Bridegan murder case, which new legal filings show will involve the use of wire taps and phone search warrants.

Shanna Gardner was booked into the Duval County Jail late last night after being extradited from Washington State

One of three people accused of a plot to kill a St. Johns County father of four said “it ain’t looking good” when talking about his case in a jailhouse interview.

For the first time since his wife’s arrest in the murder conspiracy to kill her ex-husband, the man accused of orchestrating the death of Jared Bridegan will appear in court Tuesday.

During the video, Mario Fernandez can be seen sitting handcuffed in the back of a pickup truck, talking with investigators. He was then placed into the back of a patrol car.

The State Attorney’s Office on Thursday the indictment of Jared Bridegan’s ex-wife on first-degree murder charges in the conspiracy that led to his ambush shooting last year.

The man accused of planning Jared Bridegan’s death appeared in court today. Mario Fernandez faces first degree murder, conspiracy, and child abuse charges.

The man investigators say helped orchestrate a conspiracy to kill a St. Johns County father of four in February 2022 will plead not guilty to the charges against him at his arraignment Tuesday in Duval County court.

The man investigators say helped orchestrate a conspiracy to kill a St. Johns County father of four in February 2022 plans to plead not guilty to the charges against him, his attorney said in a statement to News4JAX on Thursday.

The man investigators say was behind the money in a conspiracy to kill a St. Johns County father of four in February 2022 has been transferred to the Duval County jail.

News4JAX on Monday obtained the plea agreement signed Thursday by Henry Tenon, in which he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jared Bridegan.

When deadly shots were fired on a dark stretch of road near the Sanctuary neighborhood on Feb. 16, 2022, investigators say it was the culmination of a weeks-long conspiracy to kill Jared Bridegan.

State Attorney Melissa Nelson and Jacksonville Beach Police Chief Gene Paul Smith announced arrest of Mario Fernandez in the February 2022 murder of Jared Bridegan.

The man arrested in connection with the death of Jared Bridegan appeared in Duval County court Monday morning for his arraignment.

Henry Tenon scheduled to be in Duval County court Monday for his arraignment

The state attorney’s office filed the formal charges against the man arrested in connection with the shooting death last year of a father of four in Jacksonville Beach, Duval County court records show.

The widow and brother of a father of four killed last year in what police believe was a targeted ambush shooting in Jacksonville Beach opened up Thursday to the News4JAX I-TEAM about the arrest in the case and the questions still left in the investigation.

The 61-year-old man arrested in connection with the targeted ambush shooting of a father of four in Jacksonville Beach last year will be arraigned on the charges Feb. 16 -- a year to the day that Jared Bridegan was gunned down with his toddler daughter in the back seat of his SUV.

Nearly a year after a father of four was gunned down in what police believe was a targeted ambush shooting in Jacksonville Beach, police and the state attorney’s office announced an arrest in the case Wednesday.