Ralph Mincey, Oxford, Georgia man shoots and kills wife, daughter during fight over his elderly mother. Victims id as Jennifer Lynn Mincey and Amanda Mincey McBrayer.
‘I lost it. I’m sorry….’ A 63-year-old Georgia man is accused of shooting and killing his wife of 38 years and adult daughter following a ‘violent’ argument in his home.
Ralph Mincey following his arrest over the weekend was charged with two counts of murder and a weapons possession charge in the deaths of 57-year-old Jennifer Lynn Mincey and 37-year-old Amanda Mincey McBrayer, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office.
The shooting happened at a residence on Gauntt Road in Oxford, a small town about 40 miles southeast of Atlanta. Deputies arrived on the scene and found Mincey’s daughter dead. His wife was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she later died, according to WSBTV.
Mincey was arrested at the scene.
‘We are saddened by this senseless loss of life,’ Walton County Sheriff Keith Brooks said in a press release.
A released 911 call captured Amanda McBrayer’s husband, Adam McGrath, telling a dispatcher, ‘He just shot my wife in the head.’
Adding, ‘I literally ran away because I had two kids I’ve got to protect, and I’m scared to go back up there.’
McGrath told the dispatcher that his wife and her father had been arguing immediately before the shooting.
‘My wife was drunk; she was upset; she wanted me to bring her home,’ McGrath said. ‘So, I brought her to her parent’s house, and then she got into it with her dad, and her dad said, ‘I’ve got a gun; I’ve got a gun. I’m going to pull the f—ing trigger,’ then shot her in the head. Then he grabbed his wife by the throat, threw her down, and threatened to kill her too.’
As deputies responded, another 911 call came in; this time it was from the alleged shooter.
‘My wife had told my daughter that I didn’t take care of my mother,’ Mincey said. ‘I do every day, and I—I just shot my daughter and my wife of 38 years
‘Do you know if they’re still breathing?’ said police dispatch.
‘No, it don’t look like it,’ Mincey said. ‘It was a nine millimeter right straight to the head.’
Adding, ‘I just, I couldn’t handle no more, the f—ing lying and the way they were screaming at me. I don’t know, I just, I lost it. I’m so sorry. Thirty-eight years. I love her.’
Mincey remains held without bail.
