Just weeks after Mary Catherine Gingles got a temporary restraining order from a judge to keep her estranged husband with a history of domestic violence away from her, she, her father and her neighbor were brutally murdered last Sunday morning in a quiet Tamarac neighborhood.
Broward Circuit Court Judge Lauren Alperstein had also ordered Nathan Alan Gingles, 43, an Army vet, to surrender his firearms, ammunition and any concealed weapons permits to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, when she signed the order on Dec. 30.
A copy of the judge’s order was forwarded to BSO, which was required to serve the injunction upon Nathan “as soon as possible,” the order says. But BSO did not seize his weapons, one of the key points where BSO “fell short,” Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said Wednesday, announcing the suspension of seven deputies connected to the case…