Background: News footage of Nathan Gingles in court (WPLG). Inset: Mary Catherine Gingles (Broward County Sheriff’s Office).
The identities of the three alleged victims of Nathan Gingles, 43, were revealed by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. Gingles was located at a Walmart store with his daughter after her mother and grandfather were discovered shot dead in her Florida residence.
Gingles was charged with shooting his estranged wife, Mary Catherine Gingles, 34; her father David Pozner, 64; and her neighbor Andrew Ferrin, 36, on the morning of Feb. 16. According to a press release from the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, Pozner was found deceased with a gunshot wound on the back patio of his daughter’s home. Broward County Sheriff’s Detective Lacey Henry described in an arrest warrant, obtained by WPLG, a local ABC affiliate, that Pozner was holding the broken handle of a coffee mug when he was allegedly shot “in the head while innocently drinking coffee on his back patio.”
The warrant provided more details of the gruesome crime scene in the Tamarac, Florida, neighborhood that law enforcement encountered, which included the discovery of Mary Gingles’ body at Ferrin’s residence, where he was also found dead. Police mentioned that surveillance footage from the area depicted Mary Gingles seeking help at Ferrin’s home after her father had been shot.
WPLG obtained surveillance footage from a neighboring house that recorded the sound of several gunshots followed by a woman screaming. The same camera also allegedly captured Nathan Gingles, walking on the sidewalk, trailed by the 4-year-old daughter he allegedly kidnapped. Henry wrote in the warrant that the two were allegedly following Mary Gingles to Ferrin’s house.
Police believed that the little girl was a witness to all three alleged murders.
Nathan Gingles and Mary Gingles were in the midst of a contentious divorce process that included several instances of domestic violence. At the time of her death, Mary Gingles had a protection order against Nathan Gingles, which he was charged with violating. It was noted in the warrant that deputies saw a domestic violence injunction document in the kitchen and several gun lockboxes.
WPLG reported on Mary Gingles’ fears of her estranged husband, as she described them in court documents. In one handwritten document, Mary Gingles wrote that Nathan Gingles once “sang that he was going to shoot me and there was nothing I could do about it.” In her injunction victim’s statement, Mary Gingles explicitly said, “Because of Nathan’s psychotic behavior, his multiple threats, his drug use, his multiple/many silenced firearms, and my impending divorce action, I am afraid Nathan will kill me and my daughter.”
The couple’s 4-year-old was the subject of an Amber Alert before she was found with her father. She was unharmed.
