Pompano Beach, FL: Couple dead in murder-suicide identified by Broward Sheriff's Office

POMPANO BEACH — A 3-year-old boy was orphaned Tuesday night after an argument between his parents escalated and left both adults dead from gunshot wounds, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.Nattalie Ann Cardona Nenadich, 25, and Abel Ferdinand, Jr., 29, were married in a religious ceremony in Florida in 2009, state records show. They did not have criminal records in Florida, and, according to BSO, there is no record of 911 calls for help from that address.Detectives do not know what the couple was arguing about in their Golden Square rental apartment at 1400 N.W. 18th Drive around 8 p.m., when Abel produced a weapon and Nattalie told her mother to flee, Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Dani Moschella said.As the mother asked a neighbor to call 911, she heard the gunshot that killed her daughter, Moschella said. Ferdinand then fled with the couple's son and drove toward his parents' Lauderdale Lakes home.
"As he is driving, he was calling family and friends and admits he killed Nattalie and that he is suicidal," Moschella said.At the 2900 block of Northwest 33rd Way in Lauderdale Lakes, Ferdinand handed off the toddler to his sister, who tried to talk him out of harming himself, Moschella said. That conversation prompted a neighbor to make a second call to 911 about Ferdinand, and a responding BSO deputy also tried to convince the man to give up his gun, Moschella said.The incident prompted a SWAT squad to respond to the Lauderdale Lakes neighborhood near Ferdinand's parents' home.The pleas to put down the gun were to no avail, and the sheriff's spokeswoman said Ferdinand also took his life, an hour after his wife died.The couple's son was not physically harmed and was left in the custody of his paternal grandparents, she said.