Triple homicide, child allegedly kidnapped by father rock quiet Florida neighborhood

Authorities are investigating a triple homicide involving a Florida man who was the subject of an Amber Alert issued for his young daughter last weekend. Nathan Gingles, 43, was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after he was accused of kidnapping his 4-year-old daughter, Seraphine Gingles, Feb.16.While the girl was later found safe, her mother, grandfather and a neighbor were killed. Authorities responded to reports of a shooting about 6 a.m.
Sunday at a Tamarac, Florida, home, where they discovered 64-year-old David Ponzer, Seraphine’s grandfather, with a gunshot wound on the back patio of the home, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.Ponzer was pronounced dead at the home.As part of that investigation, police learned that the 4-year-old had been taken from the home, and a statewide Amber Alert was issued to the public. Law enforcement believed she was taken by her father in a 2016 silver BMW X3 with a Texas license plate and that she was in danger.
Authorities also initially believed that Seraphine’s mother, Mary Gingles, 34, was with them. Several hours after issuing the Amber Alert, detectives reported finding Nathan Gingles and his daughter, who was unharmed, shortly before 11 a.m.in North Lauderdale.Nathan Gingles was initially arrested on a charge of violating an injunction regarding no contact with the child and her mother.Mary Gingles was later found dead from gunshot wounds inside another Tamarac home on North Plum Bay Parkway.
And another man, 36-year-old Andrew Ferrin, was found dead inside the same home, according to police. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team searched a nearby canal and located a gun believed to be the weapon used in the crimes, police said. Gingles was being held at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale and is facing three counts of premeditated first-degree murder with a gun, according to inmate records. He also faces charges of violating an injunction relating to not...