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ARTICLE VIEW:
6 more officers fired over handling of domestic violence-fueled triple
homicide in South Florida
By Associated Press
Updated:
12:59 AM EDT, Sat September 13, 2025
Source: AP
A South Florida sheriff’s office has fired six more deputies and
disciplined 11 others for their handling of the case of Mary Gingles, a
woman who investigators say was murdered by her estranged husband after
she had warned officers for months that she feared he would kill her.
Two officers had previously been dismissed for their role in the case.
An internal investigation found that multiple Broward Sheriff’s
Office deputies failed to properly investigate Gingles’ reports of
domestic violence perpetrated by her husband, Nathan Gingles, before he
allegedly carried out the triple homicide of his wife, her father,
David Ponzer, and her neighbor Andrew Ferrin, as the Gingles’
four-year-old daughter begged her father to stop.
Nathan Gingles has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he could face the
death penalty.
The killings — despite Mary Gingles’ repeated pleas for help —
have shaken the South Florida community of Tamarac and ignited fresh
scrutiny of officers’ failure to use the state’s to remove firearms
from a person deemed a danger to themselves or others.
Following through on threats that Mary Gingles had repeatedly reported,
on Februbary 16, Nathan Gingles fatally shot his father-in-law as he
was drinking coffee on the back patio of the family’s home, before
chasing Mary down the street and killing her and Ferrin, a neighbor
whose home she fled to, according to investigators.
“We had multiple opportunities to protect Mary during the months
preceding her death when she alerted us to the domestic violence she
was experiencing. The deputies and detectives assigned to investigate
these cases failed their training and, ultimately, failed to handle
Mary’s repeated cries for help with the urgency required,” Broward
Sheriff Gregory Tony said in a statement.
According to an investigation by the Miami Herald, in the year leading
up to her murder, Mary Gingles had confided in friends, family and law
enforcement officers that she feared her estranged husband would kill
her.
He repeatedly violated restraining orders barring him from the
family’s home, terrorizing his wife by putting a tracker on her car
and leaving a backpack full of supplies like duct tape and zip ties in
the garage, the investigation found.
Gingles’ alleged behavior in the months leading up to the killings
was consistent with what experts say are known risk factors for further
abuse, including deadly violence. More female intimate partners are
killed by firearms than by all other means combined, according to a
Department of Justice analysis of a study by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
“One of the most crucial steps to prevent lethal violence is to
disarm abusers and keep them disarmed,” the Justice Department’s
report stated.
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