A four -year -old girl who witnessed her father, shot her mother, grandfather and a neighbor told the police the events that unfolded in horrible details, say the Florida authorities.
Seraphine, the daughter of 43-year-old Nathan Gangles, said she was sitting on the couch in the living room of her Tamarac house on Sunday when her father erupted by the back door, according to an arrest statement obtained by the Miami Herald.
Nathan then went to the terrace 'with a long black gun' and said 'bye' after the death of 64-year-old David Ponzer to death, the child said.
Ponzer, the little girl's grandfather, was outside of drinking coffee and was shot around 6.30 am, according to the arrest report.
The girl then said she saw her father haunted her mother, Mary Catherine Gingles, 34, on the street, where they started fighting on the floor.
She said detectives that her mother was screaming for help and hit doors in the neighborhood until she was able to hurry up the house of 36-year-old Andrew Ferrin.
The police said that security video showed that Nathan entered Ferrin's house, across the street.
Seraphine said that as soon as Nathan was in Ferrin's house, he shot her mother a hundred times, although the police say that only 10 shots were fired.
Seraphine, the daughter of Mary and Nathan Gingles, reported her father to kill her mother, grandfather and neighbor
Seraphine is depicted on a horse with her mother Mary, 34, who was beaten, beaten and then shot by her husband, the police said
Seraphine said that her grandfather on the mother's side, 64-year-old David Ponzer, was the first to be shot by Nathan, who reportedly said “Bye Bye” before he committed the malignant act
In the midst of the fight between Mary and Nathan, Seraphine said that her mother's house of Andrew Ferrin, 36, in clambering for refuge. The dead bodies of Mary and Nathan were found in the house by the police
Mary and Ferrin were found dead in a bedroom. Her body lay on the floor under the bedroom window, while the neighbor's body was in bed and covered with a blanket, according to the police.
Mary was also discovered that she has serious injuries on her face and two points of a taser gun under her right shoulder blade.
The child described the horrible murders while her mother and grandfather were 'defeated', the explanation said. She said she wanted her mother to “beat” her father, but “her father won.”
Seraphine was then abducted by her father, who reportedly told her that she would never see her mother or grandfather that they would visit family in Texas.
The same day, an Amber Alert was published for Seraphine, which led Nathan to be arrested by the representatives of Broward County Sheriff on a Walmart parking place in North Lauderdale.
Court reports indicate that at the beginning of February 2024 Nathan had forbidden his wife Mary after getting a domestic violence against him.
The divorce procedures started later that month and continued at the time of the triple murder.
Nathan, now in custody without bond in the main prison of Broward County, is confronted with three counts of murder of the first degree. On those three charges alone, he could be sentenced to death if he is convicted.
Nathan Gingles, 44, was accused of killing all three victims and for killing his daughter
Spooky photos showed Seraphine smiling at the back of Broward County Sheriff's Office Cruiser after she was saved from her father, who had taken her to a Walmart in North Lauderdale
He was also accused of seven other crimes, including kidnapping, violating a protection order and child abuse.
Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony has not chopped words about the fault of him and his department in the triple murder and said that the representatives who could not protect the victims will lose their jobs. '
“This death is on my watch,” said Tony. “There will be people who will lose their job about this.”
Tony announced the suspensions of seven delegates after the provisional results of an internal investigation revealed serious assessment falling decline on the side of officers.
The officer said that delegates do not intervene in disputes about domestic violence between Gingles and his wife in October and December.
“This is just a matter of what I have seen, pi ** bad achievements, complacency and people who don't do their due diligence,” Tony said.
'There was plenty where we could possibly have pursued for likely cause statements, so that we could arrest him and remove it from the street, and that did not happen.
“I actually say that we had the chance to save your loved one's life, and we failed,” he said.
According to judicial documents, Nathan and Mary met in 2016 and married two years later. They then moved to Germany, where Seraphine was born in August 2020.
Mary said Nathan was a violent and offensive husband who had threatened to kill her and their daughter.
In one incident, Mary said that Nathan 'sicked Adderall all night and in a state induced by drugs, who was bizarre in the morning and sang a made -up song about how he would kill the mother and get away with it and how nobody would her her find body. '
Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony has suspended seven of his delegates because they cannot intervene in the domestic disputes between Mary and Nathan. He said that officers showed 'piss bad performance' and claimed that people will lose their jobs'
Nathan appears in court after the triple murder. If convicted of even one of the three murders, he is eligible for the death penalty
Mary said in judicial documents that she lived 'in constant fear of my husband'. Nathan worked as an IT technician and earned $ 187,000 a year with a military contractor who served the southern command in Doral.
“He will sniff Adderall and stay up all night while Sera and I try to sleep. He has left lines of ground adderall on his sideboard, “she said.
Mary claimed that he told her more than once, “If you try to leave me, I'll kill you.”
Her initial domestic violence had expired in July 2024, but she was able to get another one at the end of December, which remained active when she was killed.
In the second application she claimed '[Nathan’s] Stalking -behavior has increased lately and I think he wants to kill me while he has access to the rental properties where I live. '
In October she reported to the Broward Sheriff office that she thought a tracking device on her car was corresponding to a Nathan who bought weeks earlier. In December she told the Sheriff's that she found what she believed as a murder package in her garage.
“I think it's all because he will try to kill me,” she said in the court documents in December.
The protection warrant was extended by the court until March 19, but that did not stop the fatal attack.
