Brother, uncle of slain Tamarac victims: ‘I wake up all-night long to this nightmare’

Frank Ponzer has a simple question: How does a U.S. Army vet with two domestic violence restraining orders against him keep his job as a contractor with security clearance at the U.S. Southern Command in Doral?

The man in question is Nathan Alan Gingles, 43, who is accused of gunning down Frank’s niece Mary Gingles, 34; her father and Frank’s brother, David Ponzer, 64; and Andrew Ferrin, 36, a neighbor whose home Mary sought refuge in as Nathan hunted her down her last Sunday morning in a quiet Tamarac neighborhood, Broward Sheriff deputies say.

“How do you have a person in a position like Nathan Gingles was in before you vet him? He had a security clearance after the military disqualified him. And, the contractor hires him for the same job. How the [expletive] does that happen?” Ponzer, 60, said in an interview with the Miami Herald from his home in Colorado…

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