Foto: BSO: Nathan Gingles booking photo
(Fort Lauderdale, FL) - The Broward Sheriff's office Internal Affairs Unit releasing the results of the administrative investigation into his department's response to a horrific triple killing in a Tamarac neighborhood earlier this year.
The Broward Sheriff, Gregory Tony, firing eight and disciplining 21 BSO employees for incompetence, failure to adhere to training protocols in their duty to intervene in the bloodshed.
Sheriff Gregory Tony says it took his officers 20-minutes for his officers to respond to the shooting in which Nathan Gingles allegedly killed his estranged wife, her father and a neighbor.
He says they should have gotten there in two minutes after the first call of "shots fired."
"At this point in time, Mary is still alive. She's running from one door to the next trying to find help. She identified one residence with an unlocked door which was Andrew's house. At which time the suspect came in and killed both Mary and Andrew." Sheriff Tony says if his deputies had acted quickly those lives could have been saved.
43-year-old Nathan Gingles is accused of gunning down his estranged wife, Mary Gingles, her father, David Ponzer, and their neighbor, Andrew Ferrin, on North Plum Bay Parkway back in February.
Gingles took his 4-year-old daughter, who witnessed the killings from her mother's home, prompting a statewide Amber Alert.
Gingles was arrested on three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of child abuse, one count of kidnapping and one count of violating a domestic violence injunction. He faces the death penalty.