Inset: Ralph Mincey (Walton County Sheriff’s Office). Background: The Oxford, Ga., home where authorities say Mincey fatally shot his wife and daughter (Google Maps).
A Georgia man has been jailed after authorities say he shot and killed his wife and adult daughter earlier this week.
Ralph Mincey, 63, is facing two murder counts and a weapons possession charge in connection with the deaths of Jennifer Lynn Mincey, 57, and Amanda Mincey McBrayer, 37.
The deadly domestic incident took place Wednesday night at a home on Gauntt Road in Oxford, a small community about 40 miles southeast of Atlanta.
When deputies reached the residence, they found Mincey’s daughter dead, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. His wife was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where she later died from her injuries. Mincey was arrested at the scene.
“We are saddened by this senseless loss of life,” Walton County Sheriff Keith Brooks said in a brief press release.
On Friday, officials released chilling 911 recordings that offered additional details about the events of that night.
In one call, Amanda McBrayer’s husband, Adam McGrath, told a dispatcher he witnessed the shooting before escaping the home, according to audio obtained by Atlanta-based NBC affiliate WXIA.
“He just shot my wife in the head,” the grieving husband said, referring to the defendant. “I literally ran away because I had two kids I’ve got to protect, and I’m scared to go back up there.”
McGrath went on to tell the dispatcher his wife and her father were arguing about something immediately before the shooting.
“My wife was drunk, she was upset, she wanted me to bring her home,” the victim’s husband continued on the 911 call. “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 gonna 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 to the address, another 911 call came in – this one from the defendant himself.
“My wife had told my daughter that I didn’t take care of my mother,” Mincey told a dispatcher. “I do every day, and I – I just shot my daughter and my wife of 38 years.”
The dispatcher inquired: “Do you know if they’re still breathing?”
“No, it don’t look like it,” the defendant replied. “It was a nine millimeter right straight to the head.”
Mincey went on to try to explain himself.
“I just – I couldn’t handle no more the f—ing lying and the way they were screaming at me,” the defendant said on the call. “I don’t know, I just, I lost it. I’m so sorry. Thirty-eight years, I love her.”
