Five members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) have been suspended for “not acting” during a triple homicide in Tamarac, sources tell REDBROWARD. On Sunday, Mary Gingles, her father David Pozner and her neighbor Andrew Ferrin were allegedly killed by Nathan Gingles, her estranged husband. Gingles did not harm his four year old daughter.
According to our sources, it was an “active shooter situation” when BSO arrived on scene.
According to PEOPLE magazine, Mary Gingles ran to neighbors’ home seeking help while her estranged husband hunted her. Gingles “reportedly [ran] around her neighborhood pleading for help after she was shot,” PEOPLE reported. “Authorities found Mary fatally shot inside the residence of her neighbor Andrew Ferrin.”
According to our sources, five members of BSO who responded to the scene did not engage the shooter.
REDBROWARD is not revealing the names of the BSO employees. Four are assigned to BSO Tamarac.
Below is the official “description of incident” released by BSO on Sunday:
At approximately 6:02 a.m. that morning, Broward County Regional Communications received reports of a shooting in the 9700 block of North Grand Duke Circle in Tamarac. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and Tamarac Fire Rescue responded. On scene, deputies located an adult male, David Ponzer, Mary Gingles’ father, suffering from a gunshot wound on the back patio of a home at 5897 North Plum Bay Parkway. Ponzer was pronounced deceased on scene. BSO’s Homicide and Crime Scene units responded to begin investigating the incident.
As part of the investigation, it was learned that a four-year-old child, Seraphine Gingles, was taken from the residence. A statewide Amber Alert was issued for Seraphine shortly after 10 a.m. She was believed to have been taken by Nathan Gingles, Seraphine’s father, who was driving a 2016 silver BMW X3. Multiple BSO resources engaged in the search for the child. Shortly before 11 a.m., BSO’s V.I.P.E.R. (Violence Intervention Proactive Enforcement Response) deputies located the vehicle involved in this incident at 7900 West McNab Road in North Lauderdale. Seraphine was located safe and unharmed, and Nathan Gingles was taken into custody.
During this time, while searching for Mary Gingles, deputies located her deceased from gunshot wounds inside a home at 5888 North Plum Bay Parkway. Additionally, Andrew Ferrin was also found deceased inside that residence from gunshot wounds.
Oh my word my word! As of it wasn’t tragic enough.
Sunday while heading Crunch Fitness, 3 Broward Sheriff were sitting in a Parking Lot of Sunshine Plaza for over 3 Hrs from 7 am to 10 am 2 patrol cars and a Motorcycle, I wonder if those deputies were apart of the officers who didn’t engage the shooter?????
I wonder if Douche Bag DeSantis will hold Sheriff Scumbag Tony accountable like he did Scott Israel?? No chance. I can guarantee you Dr Dufus Tony will run the deputies over with a huge bus. Political scum. Greg Mr Home Invasion Tony knows a thing or two about murder.
There have also been reports that she had contacted the BSO a number of times with respect to her restraining order against him and possible violations by him of it but with limited response by the BSO.
Something doesn’t sound right. The report reads like the deputies responded after the fact and found the crime scene. Where is the part about them showing up to gunfire or something?
This is how BSO works today. Deputies are being held to standards of omnipotence and perfection. I seriously doubt that they had enough information in the confusion when they arrived to determine that a man walking down the street with his daughter was involved in a shooting. There will probably be more deputies thrown under the bus from this case because somehow it will be the deputies’ fault that this unhinged guy killed his ex… Deputies are being pressured to make arrests on domestics regardless of the facts that they can prove. It’s so bad that union reps tell deputies that they don’t need probable cause on domestic calls…just flip a coin and take someone to jail.
Find another career or at least a better agency.
BSO failed to arrest the father on multiple restraining order offenses too. This should not blow over easily. Tax payers will again be on the hook for multi million dollar settlements just like Parkland.